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NEW ENGLAND Yearly Meeting of Friends
Three Hundred Eleventh Session Held at WATERTOWN, CONNECTICUT
June 25 - 30, 1971
1971
The Dingley Press, Freeport, Me.
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1. The three hundred eleventh session of the New England Yearly Meeting of Friends gathered on the campus of the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut, June 25-30, 1971.
2. Lance Odden, Assistant Headmaster, welcomed the Year- ly Meeting in behalf of the Taft School.
3. The Clerk opened the meeting for worship by reading from Thomas R. Kelly’s “A Testament of Devotion.”
The possibility of this experience of Divine Presence, as a repeat- edly realized and present fact, and its transforming and transfiguring
effect upon all life — this is the central message of Friends. Once discover this glorious secret, this new dimension of life, and we no longer live merely in time but we live also in the Eternal... The
sense of Presence carr(ies) with it a sense of our lives being in large part guided, dynamically moved from beyond our usual selves. Instead of being the active, hurrying church worker and the anxious, careful planner of shrewd moves toward the good life, we become pliant creatures, less brittle, less obstinately rational. The energizing, dynamic center is not in us but in the Divine Presence in which we share. Religion is not our concern; it is God’s concern. The sooner we stop thinking we are the energetic operators of religion and dis- cover that God is at work, as the Aggressor, the Invader, the Initiator, so much the sooner do we discover that our task is to call men to be still and know, listen, hearken in quiet invitation to the subtle promptings of the Divine. Our task is to encourage others first to let go, to cease striving, to give over this fevered effort of the self- sufficient religionist trying to please an external deity... God is the Seeker, and not we alone... I am persuaded that religious people do not with sufficient seriousness count on God as an active factor in the affairs of the world. ‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock,’ but too many well-intentioned people are so preoccupied with the clatter of effort to do something for God that they don’t hear Him asking that He might do something through them.
4. We were happy to welcome to our sessions Jean Zaru, Clerk of Near East Yearly Meeting, Ramallah; Harold Smuck of Friends United Meeting; Elizabeth Smiley of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting; Helen Durgin of Baltimore Yearly Meeting.
5. Jeannette Smith, Clerk of Ministry and Counsel, intro- duced a summary of the Quarterly Meeting spiritual reports, prepared by Ministry and Counsel. Virginia Towle read this summary.
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Five queries emerge from the reports received:
1. Do we achieve spiritual maturity in which contemplation and social action are not opposites, but complementary?
29. Does the ministry in our meetings for worship open our hearts and minds to the in-dwelling Spirit of Christ, ena- bling us to proclaim the Christian message by life and word?
3. Are our meetings for business times of spiritual concern and prayerful search for the way of truth?
4. Do we accept the responsibility of stewardship, that “the Earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein?”
5. Do we comfortably hide behind the phrase that “deepest prayer is beyond words” and thereby fail to discover the complete openness and awareness that may come from many forms of worship and prayer? Do we truly believe that our spiritual growth is fostered in direct proportion to our obedience in prayer?
STATE OF SOCIETY REPORTS
CONNECTICUT VALLEY QUARTERLY MEETING
Connecticut Valley Quarterly Meeting meets at intervals through each year at Mount Toby Meeting House (in Leverett, Mass.), and in West Hartford, and alternately in New Haven and in Middletown (Connecticut). In addition, a summer meeting is often arranged. At each of these times, meetings of Ministry and Counsel are held. The spiritual and social fellowship of these gatherings is found to be very valuable by the few who attend.
Mount Toby Monthly Meeting reports that the Springfield (Mass.) Meeting for Worship has been laid down for lack of attendance, and that a thriving meeting for worship has started at the new experi- mental Hampshire College in South Amherst.
Pleasant Street Monthly Meeting (Worcester, Mass.): “Most of us find spiritual help from our weekly associations for worship. We have been attracting more young people and families than before. We don’t have enough children or teen-agers to enable us to create a First Day School. We are all urged to search for the place of Christ in the life of the modern Quaker.”
_ Watertown Allowed Meeting (Conn.): “In our small way, we try to improve the scene we have been placed into...Silent ministry seems satisfying to our immediate group. The meeting spirit continues when we are separated. Monthly discussion groups are devoted to matters of spiritual concern. One Sunday a month we have a social hour after meeting. First Day School is irregularly attended, which makes for difficulty in unit or follow-through planning... We have a strong family life — strengthened by the meeting. We try to be good parents, and by precept and example show our children the way.”
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Hartford Monthly Meeting (Conn.): “ “There seems to be a quality in Meeting that we are somehow able to carry over into our daily lives making our relationships with others... so much richer and more fulfilling. These are words taken from a letter of application for membership. We must put the statement into the form of a query — for THIS IS the quality we are all seeking. We care, we share, we try, some think we pry. Activism is merely a continuation of our spiritual concerns. Our Young Friends tell us they are sus- tained by the warmth and the love they find with us. Many have chosen to attend Friends’ schools and colleges and ... China Camp. Divorce has concerned us deeply. We wonder if the responsibility of our group should extend to providing counselling,..financial help to those in need... In the First Day School with a change of format from age grouping to interest groups, many adults have come forward to share particular talents and all have benefitted. It is for our senior members that we feel the most concern, because they are the ones vre often overlook. We are consistently refreshed and renewed by the vocal ministry. We struggle with the conflict between being trapped by our material possessions and being aware of our good fortune in having property. We house a cooperative nursery school, a school for 75 adults preparing for new careers, the AFSC, and groups such as the India Association. We have kept any surplus funds working — in a Black bank, in a house for teen age boys, in China Camp, and in housing.”
Middletown Monthly Meeting (Connecticut): ‘Middletown Friends Meeting seems to have reached a kind of maturity in its institutional growth that reflects, we hope, an analagous state in its spiritual con- dition. Our First Day School is smaller than in the past and we are trying to find ways of making it more meaningful to the children. Our discussions have ranged from issues of environmental conserva- tion to international relations. The vigil for peace in Southeast Asia has had strong support from our Meeting. Our spiritual condition is uneasy as we see so much to be done and how little we are able to accomplish, but we draw strength from our sense of community as Quakers.”
DOVER QUARTERLY MEETING
In Concord the move to a quiet first-floor place at the Merrimack Valley Day Care Center (19 Fruit St.) is welcoming to families with children. We feel encouraged by the possibilities this opens. Visiting young people have contributed greatly to the depth and vitality of a number of meetings.
There has been a considerable increase in interest among young people at Dover and a desire for more depth of communication be- tween members. Committees on Peace and Social Concerns and Religious Education are adding new members and becoming more active, as is also the Literature and Library Committee. An im- promptu group of mothers is hoping to gain insight to meet the demands of an increasingly complex society by exploring helpful literature together. Another group feels the need for more expres- sion through music. Messages in our meetings for worship reflect a deep concern for chaotic world conditions, and a larger proportion of attenders are participating in vocal ministry. Gonic continues to hold local meetings regularly except during the summer months, when members attend at Dover; and under the leadership of Brenda Kuhn summer meetings are being held in Kuhn House at Cape Neddick, Maine.
Weare continues to seek ways to meet the needs of its members and summer visitors. Our regular evening meeting in the home of a member keeps us in touch and gives our group some of the atmos-
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phere of the early days of the Society of Friends. After a worship period we have business and then all gather at the table for refresh- ments. Usually some topic related to modern life holds us for dis- cussion, sometimes till after midnight. We are happy that the young minister of Weare Federated Church usually attends our little evening sessions.
FALMOUTH QUARTERLY MEETING
One Meeting reports that, in addition to its unprogrammed worship, it is having special prayer services with improved attendance, re- sulting in new members, and better attendance in First Day School.
There has been improved communication between the two Portland Meetings. Some Meetings have monthly newsletters and social get- togethers. Individual members participate in wider Friends services. There is hope that older Friends will be willing to accept changes and that newer Friends will have patience and understanding to produce closer fellowship. Spiritual growth is encouraged in pastoral worship and in silent periods providing freedom for prayer and speaking from one’s inner thoughts. Visitation in the community and between mem- bers is a concern not yet widely accomplished. Some young men are serving and others expressing the desire to serve in alternative ser- vice. There is interest in support of Yearly Meeting projects and of local societies.
One Meeting has been challenged by losing its regular leader on whom it leaned heavily; also by a large loss of members by death and discontinuance. The attendance has been small as many are scattered over a wide area. To brighten an otherwise discouraging feeling, several good Friends, from local and distant Meetings, have brought messages of hope; still their small attendance has turned these Friends’ thoughts toward uniting with another nearby Meeting.
One small Meeting is inspired by the leadership of a long time Friend who understands youthful problems. Although many wor- shippers are visitors, regular attendance has increased.
Another Meeting, mostly a summer Meeting, reports that its mem- bers live far apart and have transportation problems. A number are shut-ins, and some live in nursing homes. Members recognize their weaknesses but depend on faith in God and Jesus Christ to overcome them. Their hope for 1971 is to have some unprogrammed meetings and some with speakers and activities for all ages. They are aware of the widespread problems of the world and feel the best way they can help is through prayer.
There is as always only a small percentage of the membership that is actively engaged in Friends Meeting activities or committees. The Meetings would benefit greatly if more members shared in the Friends work or interests at local or other levels.
NORTHWEST QUARTERLY MEETING
All Meetings report that the Meeting for Worship is the focal point, from which a sense of fellowship, then a widening concern develop. The messages of youthful attenders are welcomed. Mis- givings are felt as to whether the balance is properly maintained be- tween traditional points of view and the need to continue in new directions. Putney notes differences of opinion as to the form of the Meeting for Worship. They hold discussion groups twice a month, in the hope of resolving this dilemma. Bennington feels that their study group, held last year, was helpful in clarifying the problems of vocal ministry for them. It is sad to report that Plainfield has had such a loss of members as to be most discouraging, but they are valiant in their efforts to maintain their Meeting.
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Hanover has discussion groups. They have been trying to follow “Faith and Practice” as well as to study the AFSC pamphlet, “Who Shall Live?” Hanover reports that one new member considers their loving concern for one another to be something special. All Meetings are earnest in irying to support Friends’ principles. Hanover is sad that one beloved member has resigned because of differences in inter- pretation of Faith and Practice.
Bennington Friends support appropriate community activities on an individual basis. Hanover’s Peace Committee has a Survival Mobile which goes to key gathering places in the surrounding communities with literature on ecology, population control, war and peace, and the draft. Hanover has a much more active First Day School this year, and the Forum committee sponsors discussions on matters of current interest. The Newsletter, started this year, is welcomed by all. Putney hopes their move to larger quarters in the grammar school may provide a setting for answering felt needs. Burlington is concerned in ecumenical action in the community and has worked on formation of a food cooperative. Friends are aware of the need for a First Day School and are planning to expand the Meeting House for this purpose.
Our Quarter reports growth in spiritual awareness of peoples’ needs and a desire to help. A spirit of love, reverence, and hope prevails.
RHODE ISLAND — SMITHFIELD QUARTERLY MEETING
North Dartmouth: Despite the smallness of our numbers, our meetings for worship continue a vital force.
We express our outreach into the community partly through activ- ity of individual members. As a corporate group we support the work of the Quaker Caucus and of the Westport Coffee House. The Quaker Caucus consists of concerned younger and older Friends from several meetings in Southeastern New England, who seek ways to alleviate the serious problems of the city of New Bedford arising from poverty and racial conflict. The Coffee House at Westport Friends Meeting hee started in 1965. We have been among those supporting it since that time.
Our meetings have occasional attenders from the New Bedford area and from the Southeastern Massachusetts University community.
Providence: The development of unity and community are our challenges. We seek the energy, vision and drive to further all aspects of the meeting ministry. Vital to our concerns is the quality oi the meeting for worship - we view it as an intensely personal ex- perience from which corporate unity can emerge. There are meetings that are truly gathered with the whole group feeling the shared spiritual experience, yet our meeting sometimes fail to be unifying.
Monthly meeting for business frequently seems mired in trivia instead of centering on genuine concerns. Consequently it falls short of the spirit of true worship which should characterize it.
Each First Day there is a coffee hour after Meeting which seems to offer a much needed opportunity for informal conversation between old and young.
We sense the need to know each other on a deeper level of com- munity. Our awareness should encompass other’s needs, concerns, and interests, resulting in active support and loving care for one another.
‘At one Meeting for Worship we were ‘confronted by a delegation from the Fair Welfare Organization asking that we try to influence
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one of our members who is Appeals Officer in the State Welfare Ser- vice. This we felt we could not do and we believe the Monthly Meet- ing was able to act in a reasonably satisfactory manner In explaining our position to the Fair Welfare group as well as to our own members.
The small number of Friends attending at the historic Saylesville Meeting House is one of our unsolved problems,
We need to guard against the danger of becoming impatient, dis- couraged and cynical about our failure to achieve unity, for the solutions to these problems are within us.
Smithfield: The year 1970 has been a difficult year for Smithfield Monthly Meeting.
When Paul Adkins left us in April to accept a pastorate in Hingham, Mass., we realized how much responsibility we had to pick up. Our committees worked conscientiously and effectively. Supply ministers were obtained from several colleges, individual members conducted meetings and an unprogrammed meeting was held. Ministry and Counsel, with concern for all, decided that a programmed meeting meets our needs best. We now have a student from Andover Newton Theological Seminary as an interim minister.
Our Sunday School suffered the most this year, and we have a very small, but regular attendance. The last Sunday of the month is family Sunday, and all children, except the primary class, stay _in meeting with their families or another adult. We have lost our Junior High and Senior Young Friends both in Sunday School and Young Friends meetings. One member of this group attends meeting regularly and another one teaches a Sunday School class, bringing many of the children in her own car.
Monthly Meetings are held regularly, attended by very few mem- bers. Outreach has been nominal and has taken the form of financial rather than personal involvement.
In this year of changes and frustrations we have found a nucleus of concerned members and attenders who have a deep concern for this meeting and for other people. The concern for our young people is very much on our minds and we continue our efforts in this matter.
Worcester: For a number of years a cloud has hung over the Worcester Monthly Meeting. Of late it has grown darker, more ominous and seemed to be approaching with greater speed. It is the threat of the death of the Meeting. Loss of members, loss of support, loss of interest and a feeling of helplessness in the small group of core members and attenders have created this cloud.
Our development and encouragement of the Friends Neighborhood Project were not only to meet an urgent community need, but also to prove to ourselves and the outside world that we were still a vital, concerned and relevant Society. We hoped this would attract to us like-minded, concerned people who would not only participate in our project, but in the Meeting as well. This has not happened. In fact, the project has, if anything, gained only lip service support from most of our members, and those who might have been attracted to our Meeting through it have not found the deep concern and vitality — which they sought in our Meeting.
This past fall, after sending out a questionnaire to all the members and friends of the Meeting, some deep soul-searching went on among those loyal and devoted members who were still active. The possibil- ity of divesting the Meeting of the burden of the property, consisting of a big inner city lot with two large and expensive-to-maintain build- ings was finally faced, not as a thing of the distant future but of the immediate present.
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The decision to put the property up for sale was made at the Decem- ber and January Monthly Meetings. For young and old, it was a traumatic and threatening decision. Yet, like major surgery for a desperately ill patient, it is sometimes the only decision that holds any promise for the future. At no time was the possibility of laying down the Meeting considered.
Since the decision was made and the uncertainty and struggle lived through, a new and hopeful spirit has begun to emerge - at least in a number of members and attenders. Our small Meetings for Wor- ship, held in the livingroom at the Center, have been better attended and of a deeper and warmer spiritual quality. We recognize in each other a close bond of devotion to the Meeting and to each other. The cloud seems less threatening, and we are less conscious of the shadows of the past and less depressed by those who are no longer attending. Instead, we rejoice more in those who do attend.
Although the actual sale of the property has not yet taken place, we are looking to the future with the consciousness that the Meeting is not the buildings. The assuming of more responsibility for the life of the Meeting and for the Meeting for Worship is being discussed as the members face a future without the support and leadership of a paid pastor. Visits to other small Meetings are scheduled, and several of our teenagers, presently associate members, and other young attenders are preparing to join in full membership.
necaneps the cloud will turn out to be a “fair weather” cloud, after all.
SALEM QUARTERLY MEETING
Salem Quarterly Meeting has been reorganized this year, on the recommendation of the former Arrangements Committee; the pro- posal was studied by each Monthly Meeting and adopted in October.
In organization, the main difference is that an Executive Committee, with three members appointed by each Meeting, now functions on behalf of the Quarterly Meeting. In program the change is designed to improve communication between the Meetings about programs that are planned and to invite all other Friends in the quarter, because, as the statement says, “Friends hold many concerns in common with others in other meetings.” The new plan of coordinated programs and business is to be effective for a trial period of three years.
In addition to the “business” affairs of the quarter, the Executive Committee’s main charge is “to encourage, coordinate, and facilitate communication, fellowship and joint activity among the several monthly meetings, their committees and individual Friends with in- sights and concerns to share. The Committee members keep them- selves informed about events and concerns arising in any one meeting which might be of interest to people in other meetings. They en- courage meetings and their committees to invite their counterparts to collaborate in activities of common concern. They maintain a calendar to aid in the efficient scheduling of joint events. They seek all practical ways to foster widespread, stimulating, and loving ac- quaintance throughout the quarter.”
Acton Meeting: Worship and spiritual ministry have deepened this year. Efforts to foster spiritual growth have concentrated on the adult discussion group after Meeting for Worship. Our emphasis has been on sharing our personal feelings, ideas and experiences in various spiritual directions. The participation and intensity of these discussions have enabled the Meeting for Worship to have a much more meaningful silence. We have been less active as a Meeting in our social outreach. We hope now to work toward a balance in our responsibilities as a Friends Meeting.
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We still find it difficult to reach the junior members. The young children have become better acquainted with each other and with some of the adult members in the First Day recreational and class activities.
Cambridge Meeting: Many different roads are taken in the search for God, but as we come closer to Him we come closer to each other. This thought may give us hope in considering the spiritual condition of Cambridge Meeting for there is certainly much diversity among us. Sometimes we seem to be almost two different meetings, the 9:30 a meeting of families and rather regular attenders, the 11:00 a gathering of more separate individuals —- settled members of the meeting great- ly outnumbered by new seekers. These predominantly young search- ers for love and meaning are a great, almost overwhelming, challenge to our spiritual resources, our openness and our faith. Yet we all need one another. We are all — young and old, attenders or members, experienced or inexperienced — reaching for a deeper awareness of the reality of God and for the faith and consecration to commit our lives totally to him.
Feeling our need, we have scheduled additional meetings for wor- ship for midweek mornings and evenings and on Sunday Mornings, in homes, schools, and at the Friends Center. The First Day School is full of life and activity. Many parents felt the young people needed ~ more acquaintance with the Bible and Quakerism and the teachers are attempting to follow this direction. For adults a seminar on “the Inner Light and Quaker Service” and a class on Quakerism give us more common vocabulary with which to share our thoughts.
We especially need more openness and sharing in our concepts of stewardship. There are those who see the opportunities and obliga- tions of money, real estate, and property, and those who see the dan- gers of them, the oppressions and impositions on other persons and on the environment. There are those who strive for the utmost simpli- city in their use of material resources, others who are willing to accept more of the complexities of modern life and try to turn them to good use. Perhaps the only way to bring us together in love is to remem- ber that our common search is to find God’s will not only for us as individuals but as a corporate body.
In our monthly Business Meetings we are often given the opportun- ity to consider our differences, and both our Clerks are sensitive and helpful in our struggles. Special gratitude must go to the gentle yet forthright minutes which bless and clarify our effort.
The spiritual condition of our Meetings in fact reflects the troubled spiritual condition of men everywhere. We are being literally driven to our knees by the darkness of our world and our inability to cope with it. Now, before everything else, our Meeting for Worship must stay utterly central to our lives. For it is in Meeting and in our humble and daily attempts to live in the light that we are brought again to the Divine center from which flows our love for one another and the power and strength of our witness.
Framingham Preparative Meeting: As we gradually but steadily grow in number so too do we gather a continually strengthening sense of the light of the Lord. Attenders as well as members seem to speak, when needed, to the condition of those present; giving a feeling of hope and help to many of us. Some have been so moved by this help that they have shared their gratitude and love in Meeting.
By changing the time for our Meetings for Business to First Day after Worship we have begun to feel and act as a family. We are grateful for the presence of the very young and the elderly, for it is from them that we learn that we are a living and loving Meeting.
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Beacon Hill Worship Group: The Meeting at Beacon Hill Friends House is subject to fluctuations in attendance and spirit because of the transient nature of the attendance. Through the summer and fall there was a core of support that kept the Meeting vital. Following the holiday season, this core group largely disintegrated.
We still have our luncheons together once a month and discuss the matters concerning the group and our support of otner groups. We have occasional programs. We keep hoping for people who will be regular in attendance and interest to build again our core group.
Taoere is some vocal ministry and very often the silence is alive with the “presence in the midst.” The fellowship after Meeting 1s meaningfui in getting us acquainted with each other. Our individual ued and our deep concern for the problems that face society are evident.
Lawrence Meeting: We are seekers, but are we really finding what we seek? Members and attenders perhaps would say that we have not at all times been able to center down and draw close to our Heavenly Father.
On occasion, through the spoken word, an appropriate hymn, or just through quiet meditation, we feel our spirits renewed and know that we have been with Him.
Lynn Meeting: Membership in Lynn Friends Meeting grows small- er each year with average attendance at worship meetings 12-15, and in montaly business meetings 7-8.
Ministry and Counsel has been concerned to hold the worship service on Sunday mornings in the traditional manner of Friends, but many Friends feel that a speaker is necessary, and so Abram Sangrey and Alan Kolp have led the worship when their other duties have allowed them to do so. We appreciate their help.
We endeavor to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace in business as well as worsnip meetings, but often find it difficult to do so in the face of divergent individual concerns.
Today, we are a small group, few in number and widely separated geographically, trying to live as Friends. We hope and pray that tomorrow we may find new life in the Lynn Meeting.
Wellesley Meeting: There is a firm bond of shared personal con- cern among members of our Meeting. In cases of illness, economic insecurity, and personal crises, Friends care. They feel a personal wrench when members move away from the area or resign from the Meeting. —
The continued war in Southeast Asia, with its human and political ramifications on the domestic scene, remains the chief concern of the Committee on Peace and Social Concerns. In addition, the problem of prison reform is being studied. Interest in the movements for racial justice, fair housing, and better schools continues active.
As a whole, our Meeting is very conscious of this epoch of youthful radicalism, violence, divisiveness, and perplexity on the national as well as on the local level. Each member individually searches for an equilibrium between freedom of the spirit and discipline of the spirit, and so does the Meeting as a body.
At this time, our Meeting is endeavoring to achieve that spiritual maturity in which contemplation and social action are not opposites, militating against each other, but complementary. A few members have felt strongly that the spirit of worship is impeded in our Meet- ings for Worship. The fact that prayer is offered rather infrequently suggests that this concern has substance. There have been messages
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now and then that were clearly out of place in our Meetings for Wor- ship, though they were offered sincerely and deserved to be heard. On the other hand, it may be true that Friends who strongly emphasize spirituality are fearful of openly expressed diversity.
Summing up, it seems clear that our Meeting must find increasing opportunity for growth.
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Allen’s Neck: Regular church activities have been carried on, Sunday morning Meetings, Ministry and Counsel, and business ses- sions. Though the Missionary Society is small, the missionary spirit and outreach are good. It is encouraging to note that the Young Friends are a help and take an interest in the Meeting.
We sense there is a need for renewed interest in all phases of God’s work in our Meeting and we hope that all members will contribute whatever they can both spiritually and materially in the coming year - that we can make some progress for God’s kingdom.
Dartmouth: The highlight of this year was the arrival on July 1, 1970, of Howard Macy, youth counsellor, and his wife Margaret. They seem to exemplify the characteristics of true Friends bringing us a renewed awareness of our proud heritage.
New Bedford: The New Bedford Friends Meeting is fortunate in being served by Sydney Adams who ministers to both the con- gregation as a group, and to individuals according to their needs, in a devoted Christian manner. His kindly understanding and practi-. cal messages, together with the Friendly welcome extended by the members, have attracted others to worship with us. The attendance has grown and averages well above that of the past few years.
Long Plain: The Long Plain Meeting House was opened last sum- mer for a Preparative Meeting which was well attended. During the year the members of Long Plain Meeting worship regularly on First Day with the New Bedford Friends. This arrangement is helpful to both Meetings.
Mattapoisett: For the Mattapoisett Meeting this has been a year of searching for a way to renew its spiritual life in the midst of a divisiveness that is typical of the times. We eagerly look forward to June and the arrival of a new pastor from the Earlham School of Religion who with a fresh point of view and the enthusiasm of youth can show us how to take the hurdles to a productive unity.
Swansea: Swansea Meeting’s spiritual condition is good. We are few in number but strong in our love toward one another. We feel that we speak to that of God in everyone we contact, in our com- munity witnessing as individuals to this influence in our lives. We fail to see big results but sow the seeds to young and old in faith believing His will be done.
_ Sandwich: Meetings for worship and business were held regularly in West Falmouth and South Yarmouth Preparative Meetings. Two meetings for worship were held during the summer in East Sandwich, but that Preparative Meeting is still generally inactive.
Ties among the local meetings within the Monthly Meeting have been strengthened by the establishment of a mid-week meeting for worship and discussion in private homes geographically central to the whole membership. Though attendance has not been large, mid-week meeting seems to have been a useful innovation.
Worship in the separate local meetings seems generally satisfying and deep, but we are not without problems. A sense of helplessness
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and the apathy which accompanies near-despair of ever being able to bring useful change too often crowd our considerations and tempt us in our business meetings to a kind of testy preoccupation with trivia of our housekeeping problems. If we can resist the temptation of despair, of parochialism and its pettiness on the one hand, and of vague, generalized good will as a substitute for religion on the other, we may yet free ourselves to be used by God in His ways for His pur- poses. Let the Light shine!
Westport: While the numerical strength of the Meeting did not change, new members brought added strength to the meeting. There has been a wider involvement of individual members — seeking the Light. Messages have stressed the individual’s search for God and in so doing have led to a greater openness and understanding among members. We hope in the years ahead to go beyond this mutual respect and sharing to develop a truly loving community.
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Winthrop Friends could have been speaking for us all in resolving to go on with an increased search for and a greater responsiveness to the Inner Light as we pray that we may better serve God and our fellowman.
From Camden we hear that if the fact that eight members of the Damariscotta Worship Group wrote thoughts to contribute to the report of the spiritual condition indicates growth of the spirit, then the group reflects growth. If a doubling of average attendance and an unwillingness to leave after Meeting for Worship are indications, then there has been spiritual growth.
China Friends still have their own Monthly Meeting while parti- cipating actively in a Community Church.
East Vassalboro Friends report that through special evening meet- ings and a monthly unprogrammed worship hour, they hope to come closer to doing God’s will for this small group of Friends gathered in His name.
North Fairfield Friends have a special concern for the orientation to the larger community. They feel that as we become yielded to the power of God, lives will become filled with living concern for the welfare of others.
A new “recognized” Meeting at Orono, Maine, reminds us of the difficult birth period in the life of a Friends Meeting and gives us hope for new growth of Quakerism in Maine for the future.
Our Quarterly Meeting continues to contain programmed and un- programmed meetings. Paul B. Cates continues to serve as Quarterly Meeting Worker.
6. In responding to the spiritual condition reports, Friends asked themselves: Are we truly concerned with the victims of prejudice and poverty? Are we aware that the differences and imbalances within our Meetings reflect the differences and imbalances within ourselves?
7. During a period of considering individual Meeting con- cerns, Cambridge Meeting presented some procedural changes in handling membership applications which that Meeting has adopted. The goal of the changes is flexibility in meeting indi- vidual needs. Many Friends responded to this presentation.
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8. In his keynote speech, “Getting to Where We Want to Go by Being Who We Are,” Thomas J. Mullen, Associate Dean, Earlham School of Religion, urged that we have what Dorothy Hutchinson terms “imaginative identification.” Lou Marsh, Yale Divinity classmate of Thomas Mullen’s, identified so com- pletely and imaginatively with the desperate plight of ghetto youngsters that he became totally committed to ministering to their needs. He was martyred in this cause.
Why is commitment so rare? What holds us back? The apostle Paul says, ‘What I would, that I do not; but what I hate, that do I.” (Romans VII, 15)
We rationalize brilliantly, and this is a deterrent to action: “Yes, that family is very poor, but they are happier than we are.” Though we admit that there may be victims of pre- judice and poverty, we convince ourselves that they are some- where else. And we play numbers games, pridefully con- trasting our accomplishments with those of large denomina- tions.
When we can identify imaginatively with our fellow man, we start where we are. Suddenly we care what happens to the individual sufferer, and we determine to follow through. We do not proffer help in the best Christmas-basket tradition. We help because something of his plight breaks through the shell of our concern.
When we really allow ourselves to be emotionally sensitized, we do not know where the concern will lead us. We may get some concerns and passions that we didn’t know before.
Thomas Mullen concluded with a prayer by Michael Quoist, “Lord, why did you tell me to love all men, my brothers? I don’t belong to myself any more.”
3. We welcomed to our proceedings Marion Baker, Phil- adelphia Yearly Meeting; John Sexton, Baltimore Yearly Meeting; Hurford and Winifred Crosman, Pacific Yearly Meet- ing.
10. The Roll of Representatives named by the Monthly Meetings was called. Recorded present were:
ACTON: Robert Lyon, Patricia Lyon, Elizabeth Muench; ALLEN’S NECK: Andrew Grannell, Doris A. Ashley, Mary Ann Case; BEN- NINGTON: Thoreau E. Raymond; BURLINGTON: Richard Coleman, Elizabeth Coleman; CAMBRIDGE: Lois E. Brown, Elmer H. Brown, Louisa Alger, Arthur Fink, Rosly Walter; CAMDEN: Nancy Booth; CHINA: Miriam J. Brown; CONCORD: Donald Booth, Robert Nic- hols, Adelaide Nichols; DOVER: David Martin; DURHAM: Margaret Wentworth, Jennie Booker, Harold Booker, Clarabel Marstaller, Louis Marstaller; FOREST AVENUE: Mary-Agnes Wine; HANOVER: J. Barclay Jones, Anna H. Jones, Annah Tucker, Mary Parker, Elizabeth Ballard, Susan Webb, Susan Chambers, Emily Wilson, Peter Stetten- heim; HARTFORD: Kiki Wolf, Archie Meshenuk, Helen Brill; LAWRENCE: Ruth Mellor; LYNN: Gertrude Lawrence, Frances Gove; MIDDLETOWN: Florence Taylor, David McAllester; MONAD-
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Meek. Virginia Towle; MT. TOBY: John Zahradnik, Miriam Zahradnik, C. Thomas Hancock, Marjorie Hancock, Philip Wood- bridge; NEW HAVEN: Gavin Wright, Cathe Wright; NORTH DART- MOUTH: Jerome Der Wallis, Adelaide Der Wallis, T. Noel Stern, Katherine K. Stern; NEW LONDON: Alison Oldham, Jean Mitchell, Hobart Mitchell, Bette Chu, Paula Chu; PLEASANT STREET: Francis Wheeler, Marjorie Wheeler; PROVIDENCE: Harold Myers, Mary Myers, Barbara Haddad, Jeannette Smith, Caleb Smith; PUTNEY: Christel Holzer, Donald Flemming; SANDWICH: Mary Maher, Margaret Douglas; SMITHFIELD: Eunice Strobel; STORRS: Howard Reed, Mary Reed, Clay Steinberger; WELLESLEY: Finley Perry; WESTPORT: Wesley C. Panunzio, Will Franz, Andrew Kir- kaldy; WINTHROP: Paul Cates, Helen Meader, Eleanor Bailey, David ae Alice Whiting, WORCESTER: Margaret Angell, Her- mann Patt.
11. Edwin E. Hinshaw, Young Friends Secretary, reported to the Yearly Meeting. He reminded us that no mention of the family unit appears in the state of society report and that we must not abrogate our responsibilities in this area.
A lively exchange followed in which Young Friends directed questions to the Young Friends Secretary. These questions probed basic issues, such as the community concept as a means to overcoming loneliness; Young Friends’ responsibility to poverty; joint projects for youth and adults; communication in large groups.
REPORT OF THE YOUNG FRIENDS SECRETARY
Returning from the Friends World Committee and a short family vacation last summer, we started running and have been going full speed ever since. 1970-71 seems to have been one of the fastest years yet. While being faced with several major decisions, this year has been a spiritual high for me personally and vocationally starting with a beautiful week with Young Friends at China Camp in September and concluding with a very meaningful leadership training con- ference for East Coast Friends this May. ‘High” simply means being challenged as a leader and involved as a participant-person.
There were at least three levels of program involvement during 1970-71. 1) There is an increasing need for and interest in adult/youth religious education. A four week series of Bible study in Vassalboro Quarterly Meeting involving 15 to 25 persons of all ages is one ex- ample. 2) Individual college Young Friends are concerned with mat- ters of religious life and growth, community building and social justice, and international peace, and are making this concern known to local meetings challenging us to do something about it. In addition to regular weekly programs Cambridge Meeting holds a fall and spring retreat at China Camp in which I have participated. Isolated Y.M. Young Friends are being encouraged to join in this activity. 3) Several meetings are able to maintain a strong youth fellowship on a weekly or regular basis. From these groups and due to the desire on the part of many isolated Young Friends to have a mean- ingful fellowship we have had a rich experience at Young Friends Arrangements Committee, mid-winter conference and Yearly Meeting. Another area which takes much time is personal and group visitation which continues to be fun and hopefully meaningful to the individual and meeting.
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Young Friends mid-winter conference was the largest in 8 years. A good experience illustrating the need for community and trust. We have had over the years a variety of meaningful experiences for Young Friends. There is, however, the difficulty of maintaining the supportive fellowship of these activities due to the scattered nature of so many Quaker families, to lack of local follow-up and in part to the transient nature of Young Friends. Last year saw an increase in “in-between” sharing and keeping in touch. This is hard to describe, but I felt an atmosphere of growing love, trust and willingness to get involved.
A concluding thought: While there are many good and some not so good ideologies competing for our time and energies, we, the Society of Friends, the Quaker family must reclaim the right to participate fully in the total educational process of the person- child, youth and adult. We are called to live responsibly and joyously in the light of the Lord and not leave it for someone else to do.
EDWIN E. HINSHAW
12. The Nominating Committee submitted names of persons to serve on the following: Permanent Board, Executive Coun- cil, Auditors of Permanent Funds, Board of Managers of In- vestments and Permanent Funds; Representatives to American Friends Service Committee, Inc., Friends Committee on Na- tional Legislation, Friends Council on Education, Friends World Committee, American Section and Fellowship Council, Quaker Men, William Penn House, Friends United Meeting sessions, Board of Directors of Massachusetts Council of Churches, State Board of Church Women United of Massachu- setts, Annual Meeting of Massachusetts Council of Churches; and for the folowing committees: Archives and Historical Records, China Camp, Christian Education, Correspondence, Equalization Fund, Friends General Conference, Friends United Meeting Wider Ministries Commission, Minute 74, Mis- sionary, Moses Brown School and Lincoln School, Mosher Book and Tract, New England Friends Home, Peace and Social Concerns, Releasing Young Friends, Student Loan and Scholar- ship. These names were approved.
13. It was approved that any Friend serving as the Execu- tive Secretary of the American Friends Service Committee, New England Region, and the President of the United Society of Friends Women of New England Yearly Meeting should serve on the Executive Council.
14. The Nominating Committee asked permission to sug- gest names for the three commissions and the General Board of Friends United Meeting to the fall meeting of the Perma- nent Board. This was approved.
15. Thomas R. Bodine summarized the actions of the Per- manent Board.
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SUMMARY OF ACTIONS BY THE PERMANENT BOARD 1970-71
The Board has authorized the China Camp Committee to purchase real property from time to time out of funds specifically raised for the purpose. The Board ratified the purchase of 50 acres of land north of the present camp property. It also authorized the China Camp Committee to sell or lease or exchange a portion of the 50 acres or buildings on the property north of the present camp. It authorized the establishment of a special Yearly Meeting bank account to handle Minute 60 funds and named Ernest Weed as Assistant Treasurer of the Yearly Meeting to administer the account. The Board received a recommendation from the Schools Committee that the Trustees of Moses Brown School be authorized to borrow $35,000 on a two-year mortgage note to improve the livability of the headmaster’s house and add a wing to provide a meeting room for social and other purposes, the $35,000 to be repaid from a contemplated capital fund drive and the general operating revenues of the school. It postponed a decision on this recommendation until its meeting on June 30 at the close of Yearly Meeting. It received a request for action on a legal technical- ity to permit the schools to continue to receive tax exempt contribu- tions and postponed a decision on this recommendation also until June 30 in order to have before it the exact legal language needed for this purpose. The Board forwarded to the Yearly Meeting me- morials for Friends deceased during the year and reported on the efforts of its clerk and others in the Yearly Meeting to assist Kevin Towle of Monadnock Meeting in his appearance before a Federal court on a draft resistance charge.
16. Louis Marstaller, Field Secretary, reported that his time this past year was about equally divided between his duties as Field Secretary and as representative to the Maine Legislature.
He has been actively concerned with legislative bills in the following areas: tax status of properties such as Friends China Camp, ambulance service in rural areas, drug control, school construction aid, location of power lines, and governmental reform.
In visiting our meetings, the Field Secretary finds indivi- duals committed to ideas but slow to implement them.
FIELD SECRETARY
Yearly Meeting is a time to look back and a time to look ahead. As I look back at my activities relative to Yearly Meeting business and concerns, I see the usual pattern of committee meetings and other visits. Some exceptions I mention here.
The special fund-raising project for disadvantaged people and its initial success show concern for others and their needs. However, many Friends are uneasy about our role (or lack of one) in meeting the spiritual needs of these and other people.
The Yearly Meeting holds a special fund called the Susan B. Kirby Fund:
“T give and bequeath all the rest, residue, and remainder of my estate of whatever it may consist to the New England Yearly Meeting of Friends, the income thereof to be used by them for the promotion of Gospel work within the limits of Sandwich Quarterly Meeting of Friends, of which meeting I am a member.”
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It has been an interesting challenge to work with the Sandwich Quarterly Meeting arrangements committee to try to find a meaning- ful way to use the $1000 in interest now available. Plans are now underway for one or more weekend conferences for “seekers” as a beginning in this endeavor.
For the past six months I have been serving as a member of the Maine House of Representatives, having time for Yearly Meeting work only on some weekends. Having to vote on some 1800 bills and about 600 amendments, I get the feeling that making laws is neces- sary but when I look again I see that many, in fact most, laws would be unnecessary if people lived responsible Christian lives, as Friends from George Fox to the present have exhorted.
As to the future, I would hope we all become better prepared and active in sharing our resources to meet the spiritual as well as the physical needs of those about us. To this end I plan to dedicate much of my effort in the coming year.
LOUIS MARSTALLER
17. Clarabel Marstaller, Office Secretary, requested infor- mation about Friends’ activities for publication in the New England Friend.
REPORT OF THE YEARLY MEETING OFFICE SECRETARY
This has been an active year for Yearly Meeting committees and office work done on their behalf. It is the purpose of the Yearly Meeting office to facilitate the work of committees, officers, and activities during the sessions by providing secretarial services and having resources available in a number of areas (supplies, Yearly Meeting files, records, material from other Friends organizations, etc.).
The New England Friend has been edited and published four times with assistance from the young people of Durham Meeting in preparing the bulk mailings.
CLARABEL MARSTALLER
18. Elizabeth Muench, reporting for the Interim Committee on Ministry and Counsel and the Meetings and Extension Committee, informed us that the pamphlet, “The Meaning of Membership in the Society of Friends,” by Thomas R. Bodine, has been reprinted and is available.
Joint Report
INTERIM COMMITTEE ON MINISTRY AND COUNSEL AND MEETINGS AND EXTENSION COMMITTEE
We have functioned this year as a joint committee endeavoring to the best of our ability to fulfill the responsibilities outlined to us in the recommendations of the Quarterly Meeting Study Committee in their report to the Yearly Meeting in 1970. We have met together four times, twice in all day sessions, twice in shorter meetings on Committee Day. Our all day sessions provided scope for a deeper exploration of our tasks through worship and discussion. Essentially we have operated as one committee with the two chairmen in con- tinual consultation with each other. We have not functioned with equal effectiveness in all areas but have tried to do one or two things
well and to hope for opportunity for effective action in other areas in other years.
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We have given major concern to the nurture of one small Meeting: a programmed Meeting searching for a revitalized ministry and ser- vice. Together the committees undertook to supply speakers to bring the morning message each Sunday “for six months or until the Meet- ing should find a regular pastor.” We fulfilled this commitment with the help of able New England Friends, most notably Gregory Har- rison and Ernest Weed, each of whom went to Mattapoisett one Sun- day in each of the six months. We are deeply grateful to them and to the nine other Friends who undertook one or more assignments. While it is not likely that we will exactly repeat this pattern, we do think it important that we try to give significant support to at least one Meeting each year while maintaining contact with and holding ourselves open to the needs and problems of other Meetings.
We have not arranged for as much intervisitation as we would have liked. An effort was made to get Meetings having appointed pastors to exchange pulpits once a month or at least occasionally, thus broad- ening the ministry. This met with only minor success initially, but it is an idea we would like to pursue. We are glad to have been able to finance, even in a small way, Paul Cates’s work in Vasssalboro Quarterly Meeting, and we stand ready to assist other Meetings in their outreach to the wider communiy insofar as possible.
From both sides of the joint committee came a concern for making available a small pamphlet on membership to be used by Meetings in answering inquiries by attenders. We therefore decided to reprint the pamphlet by Thomas R. Bodine, previously published by Beacon Hill Friends House, essentially as it has been, except for minor up- dating by its author.
Individual members of our committees responded to other calls as well. Jeannette Smith has conferred with members of ministry and counsel in several Meetings. Two members attended the trial and later two attended the sentencing in U.S. District Court in Concord, N.H. of Kevin Towle, who refused to register for the draft. We feel that his testimony and convictions are an outgrowth of Friends testi- monies. We continue in touch with Kevin, who has been transferred from New Hampshire to Ashland, Kentucky.
19. Elizabeth Muench spoke to the Yearly Meeting statisti- cal report. Our total membership is now 3,543. The total in- crease of 240 Friends is the largest in the past ten years, and our net increase of 117 persons is triple our average increase. (See Statistical Report on Pages 58 & 59).
20. We welcomed Bernard Lungaho from East Africa Year- ly Meeting and his fiancee, Mary Schendel. Bernard Lungaho, on a grant from the Releasing Young Friends Committee, is preparing language tapes to help English-speaking Friends to learn Swahili.
21. We welcomed to our meeting Elwin Sapiel, President of the Greater Bangor Indian Counsel, Bangor, Maine; Jon and Hazel Newkirk from the Friends Committee on National Legis- lation and Oregon Yearly Meeting; Brian Yaffe, New York Yearly Meeting; Barrett Hollister of the Quaker United Na- tions Program and Indiana Yearly Meeting (GC).
22. The Correspondence Committee was asked to convey our loving concern to these Friends absent because of illness:
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Lindley Cook, Henry Perry, Robert and Eva Owen, Mary Elizabeth Jones.
93. Eleanor Wilson, Chairman of the Executive Council, for the Council recommended the reappointments of the Field Secretary, Louis Marstaller; Office Secretary, Clarabel Mar- staller; Young Friends Secretary, Edwin Hinshaw; secretary to the Young Friends Secretary, Dorothy Hinshaw. These were approved.
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REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
The Executive Council held five well-attended meetings in four different places with intervisitation in mind as well as a wish to help even-out travel distances for those coming from the periphery of our Yearly Meeting.
Our arrangements and Program Committees have met often putting a maximum of time and loving concern into planning for our physical comfort, mental stimulation and spiritual inspiration at this Yearly Meeting.
To carry out the mandate of Minute 60, 1970, the Committee on Friends Responsibilities for Victims of Prejudice and Poverty has worked diligently and efficiently on an excellent program of educa- tion and fund raising in cooperation with the Peace and Social Con- cerns Committee.
Delegates to the St. Louis Conference were: Gordon M. Browne, Jr., Paul Cates, Gregory Harrison, Edwin Hinshaw and Ernest Weed, with Daisy Newman as alternate. As a result of this Conference, three position papers will be published and distributed. Also, the Friends World Committee, American Section, now sponsors a Faith and Life Group, to which we have approved as our representatives Edwin Hinshaw and Robert Lyon, with Elmer Brown as alternate.
We designate Edwin Hinshaw as our Yearly Meeting Secretary representative to the General Board of the Friends United Meeting.
Those wishing reimbursement for travel expenses to the meetings of the American Friends Service Committee, Friends Committee on National Legislation, Friends World Committee, Friends General Conference Central Committee and Executive Committee should seek authorization from the Chairman of the Executive Council. Trans- portation funds to Friends United Meeting Commissions are provided by the Friends United Meeting budget.
Due to his re-election to the Maine Legislature, Louis Marstaller’s time for Yearly Meeting work has been somewhat curtailed, but his effectiveness as Field Secretary is still felt and appreciated.
The Executive Council wishes to reaffirm its sincere appreciation for the continuing excellence of the work of all the Yearly Meeting secretaries: Louis Marstaller, Field Secretary; Edwin Hinshaw, Young Friends Secretary; Clarabel Marstaller, Yearly Meeting Office Secre- tary; and Dorothy Hinshaw, who so ably assists her husband. We recommend their reappointments.
24. The Yearly Meeting approved changing the title of Young Friends Secretary to Youth and Education Secretary.
25. Sylvia Perry, Chairman of the Committee on Friends’ Responsibilities for Victims of Prejudice and Poverty, spoke to that committee’s report.
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REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON FRIENDS’ RESPONSIBILITIES FOR VICTIMS OF PREJUDICE AND POVERTY
The implementation of the deep concern expressed by Minute 60 of the 1970 Yearly Meeting sessions got off to a very slow start. The Committee to choose the projects and raise funds was appointed in October by the Executive Council. Its first task was to develop criteria to use in determining which kinds of projects to support:
1. We will give to “self-determination” groups where the people involved make their own decisions, providing their own creative leadership with our support.
2. We will not provide simple day-to-day operating expenses for a relief or service agency, but will seek to fund programs with new approaches to basic problems in our society.
3. We would like to provide “seed money” where a small invest- ment can attract further outside financing from foundations, banks, or government.
4. We will not expect to fund on-going local Meeting projects which have been underway for some years, except under special cir- cumstances, but if a new and imaginative program is looking for outside support, we would like to hear about it.
5. We must keep a balance in our giving between northern and southern New England, keeping in mind the relative needs of black people, the white poor, and the Indians.
6. We are not particularly concerned whether or not a specific pro- ject is Quaker-connected, but we will not lose sight of our Quaker belief in the importance of every human individual and our belief in the power of love to resolve conflict, even as we are pushing for social change.
7. We will refrain from giving money to any organization which advocates the use of physical violence in carrying out its program.
There was some confusion as to who should be responsible for developing the educational programs necessary for sensitizing Friends to the needs of poor people. This was never really done by the Yearly Meeting, but many local Meetings have put on excellent educational programs on their own. A workshop on racism will be held at Yearly Meeting sponsored jointly by the Peace and Social Concerns Committee and the Minute 60 Committee.
Afer some delay, the Committee made its plans to visit all local Meetings with its concern, and these visits were accomplished almost everywhere between February and May. In the December New England Friend, the Committee listed its criteria and asked for sug- gestions on projects to receive the funds raised. In early March, the following projects were chosen:
The Minute 74 Scholarship Fund for disadvantaged children at our Friends schools.
Roxbury Action Program (RAP), a black group working to create a model black community in the Highland Park area of Boston.
Non-Reservation Indians in Northern and Central Maine.
Home, Inc., of Bennington, Vermont, an ecumenical limited-divi- Seperation doing housing rehabilitation for low income amilies.
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Despite the fact that Committee Treasurer, Ernest Weed, had received over $7000 by the end of May, the Committee feels that the broad body of New England Friends has not really gotten under the weight of this concern. Gifts have been received from only 15 out of approximately 40 active Meetings, and many of those 15 are repre- sented by only one or two individual gifts. Only a handful of Meet- ings have responded with a major fund-raising effort. The Commit- tee realizes that many Meetings and their members have financial problems, and also that our concern involves more than just fund- raising. On the other hand, the spirit of the Minute did call for a re- thinking of our priorities and a sacrificial sharing of our resources, and it is hoped that Friends will respond thoughtfully to the great needs of our brothers who have no resources.
September 1, 1971, has been set as the cut-off date for 1971 contri- butions, at which time allocation of funds will be decided upon. Five hundred dollars was given to Minute 74 in April, and all the rest we receive will be divided among the remaining three programs listed above.
REPORT OF THE MINUTE 74 COMMITTEE
The Minute 74 Committee is grateful to the large number of Friends who have so generously supported the scholarship program for dis- advantaged students in our Friends schools. As anticipated, our final contribution from the Chace Fund was considerably reduced from previous years, but we were encouraged by the willingness of the Minute 60 Committee to share some of their funds with us.
The Meeting School felt unable to continue with our scholarship program, but we were glad to be able to meet a request for aid from the Oak Grove School. We have distributed $3250 each to Lincoln and Moses Brown Schools, $2250 to the Cambridge Friends School, and $750 to Oak Grove School. This brings to nearly $40,000 the sum that we have been able to use for our scholarship program during the past four years.
We are concerned about the total impact of this program upon our Yearly Meeting membership, and upon the students and the staff of our schools by the presence of disadvantaged students. We are anticipating the development of a closer relationship with the Minute 60 Committee in the coming year and trust that our combined efforts will make a significant contribution toward a deeper understanding of, and possible solutions of, some of the compelling problems in the critical areas of our mutual concern.
REPORT OF THE RELEASING YOUNG FRIENDS COMMITTEE
The Committee met several times this year initially reviewing the purpose and function and distributing to various monthly meetings the brochure and letters concerning the coming projects.
A renewal of last year’s project was accepted as a final commitment. mhere: ene also three formal requests which were approved by the committee.
One project was submitted by a young lady who requested financial aid for volunteer work at China Camp.
Another project was submitted by a young man who wishes to publicize a speech which he has given to various college groups con- pee the peace issue and the “Genocide of Young Minds” by the military.
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A third project was submitted by a young Kenyan wishing to pre- pare language tapes so that persons planning to visit either with American Friends Service Committee work projects or whatever could speak the native language.
The committee has received some cash contributions and pledges but additional funds are still needed. The committee as can be seen by the previous paragraphs, has undertaken many diverse projects, realizing the diversity of needs that young people feel.
REPORT OF THE FRIENDS GENERAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
Of those who represent New England Yearly Meeting on Friends General Conference, three serve on their Advancement Committee, three on their Religious Education Committee, two on Christian and Interfaith Relations, one on Religious Life and one on their Con- ference. The committees meet in Philadelphia and elsewhere through- out the year; hence we try not to add another committee meeting by calling together the New England representatives unless absolutely necessary. When a matter needs the advice of the entire group we try to get it by mail, as we did last year when Friends General Con- ference asked permission to make an appeal to members of New England Yearly Meeting for additional help in meeting their budget. Actually that appeal was sent in September 1970 as New England Yearly Meeting Permanent Board gave its permission contingent upon such delay. As.a result, FGC received $412 in the Fall of 1970 from. New England Friends, indicating a desire on the part of at least thirty-five Friends to support FGC work more substantially.
Four New England Yearly Meeting members attended the Rufus Jones Lecture (an annual project of the FGC Religious Education Committee) and committee meetings held at Lake Minnewasca, N.Y., in April 1971. The lecture by George Lakey was entitled “Readiness for Revolution,” the “revolution” being interpreted as “the Lamb’s war.” Needless to say, it excited a great deal of searching inquiry.
One representative serving on the Inter-faith Committee reports keen interest in a resolution passed at the Sigtuna (1970) meeting of the Friends World Committee known as the “Martin Luther King Resolution for the study of non-violent ways of achieving change.” Another representative who serves both on the Inter-faith Relations Committee of FGC and as New England Yearly Meeting member of the Mass. Council of Churches writes: ‘My base is broadened as I see and help to determine how Friends cooperate with, participate in, and influence other churches, but especially respond to the work needed to be done spiritually, in concert.”
All of us should like to share more fully with the Yearly Meeting the inspiration we gain from our work with Friends outside of our own Yearly Meeting and we are open to suggestions as to how this may be done.
26. The Yearly Meeting wishes to express its appreciation to the Sub-Committee on Friends’ Responsibilities for Victims of Prejudice and Poverty, Minute 60, and to reaffirm its full commitment and intention of ongoing support for its project.
27. Ralph Greene, chairman of the Peace and Social Con- cerns Committee, toid of his work in poverty-stricken areas of Maine. His words, passionate in utterance and prophetic in
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spirit, burned in our consciousness: “I have not had a home for over a year; I have seen children without proper medical care, sat in many courts to see judges overtly discriminate against the poor, visited prisons and seen young men who have waited months to be tried... while my religion, the lonely old dowager, sits on her principal, too stiff to commit her funds to help... But ours must not be a contract; our spirits must be joyfully liberated in a total commitment.”
28. Jon Newkirk, Program Secretary — Legislative Repre- sentative of the Friends Committee on National Legislation, spoke on the topic, “A New Sense of Urgency — Quaker Wit- ness in Washington in the 1970’s.” He spoke of the need for creating a different environment for legislation. Responding first to power, legislators are too often insensitive to human needs. Having served two years with the Mennonite Central Committee in Vietnam, Jon Newkirk finds that congressmen have little or no understanding of Vietnamese culture.
The Yearly Meeting was shown a haunting selection of slides documenting the statement that “the Vietnamese people are united in the heritage of sadness.”
29. A memorial to Ann Gidley Lowry was read.
MEMORIAL TO ANN GIDLEY LOWRY
Ann Gidley Lowry, a gifted member and a recorded minister of the Society of Friends, died in her sleep on August 8, 1970, just eight days after celebrating her 90th birthday.
She was born July 31, 1880, the third child of Job and Susanna W. Gidley. She was a bright, mischievous girl, an original thinker. She attended Dartmouth schools, Westtown School in Pennsylvania, Wel- lesley College, and then graduated from the University of Wisconsin.
She was an outstanding teacher and taught in schools in Dartmouth and New Bedford and the Friends School in Westtown, Pennsyivania. After her marriage to Robert P. Lowry, she lived on Long Island and was an active and loved member of Flushing Meeting. After Robert Lowry’s death in 1953, she returned to the Gidley homestead in North Dartmouth. She is survived by her daughter, Gainor Lowry Murray, and two grandchildren.
North Dartmouth Meeting has cherished her presence for the past sixteen years. Whether silent or spoken, her ministry was equally effective. We felt a radiance surrounding her. Her words to us were simple and direct and brought home the importance of living our everyday lives in a spirit of generosity and kindness. Her ability to bridge generations and her interest in history and genealogy strengthened her understanding of the present, and her life was a testimony to all she spoke of.
She was Assistant Clerk of New England Yearly Meeting at West- erly from 1931 to 1937, and was active on the committee that arranged the reunion of all Friends in New England. She was a member of the Permanent Board of the reunited New England Yearly Meeting from 1945 to 1957, as well as serving on many Yearly Meeting committees. Her spiritual insight and ability to phrase ideas felicitously was espec- ially helpful on the Correspondence Committee. |
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She was interested in historical research and wrote “The Story of the Flushing Meeting House” as well as numerous articles for the Dartmouth Historical Society.
Ann Lowry has been a source of strength and inspiration to us all, and she will continue to be with us as an abiding presence.
30. The Yearly Meeting approved sending messages of lov- ing greeting to these absent Friends: Melita Fisher, Annie Dernier, Alice Gifford, Annie Rose.
31. Newlin Smith, who presented the Treasurer’s report in the absence of John Taylor, reported that the Yearly Meeting income had covered expenditures. The proposed budget for the ensuing year was presented and discussed.
REPORT OF THE TREASURER NEW ENGLAND YEARLY MEETING OF FRIENDS June 1, 1970 — May 31, 1971
Summary of Budget Accounts
Budget adopted 1970 $45,573.00 Contributions from Meetings 1969-70 37,525.66 Contributions from Meetings 1970-71 40,893.75 Percent increase in giving 1970-71 9% Total Budget Expenses (Gross) 1970-71 47,436.65 Total Budget Credits (Balances, receipts, transfers) 1970-71 49,002.31 Budget receipts in the 1970-71 year From Meetings 40,893.75 Income - invested funds for Yearly Meeting 476.59 Income - invested funds for Missions 1,976.16 Special gifts to Budget 962.75 Miscellaneous Receipts and Refunds 43.20 Total Budget Receipts $44,352.45 Percent of budget received 97.5%
QUARTERLY MEETING BUDGET CONTRIBUTIONS - PER CAPITA
Members’ Per Capita Total Connecticut Valley 671 $12.90 $ 8,566.00 Dover 158 4.10 647.40 Falmouth 333 1.00 2,349.84 Northwest 209 10.63 aoeealO Rhode Island-Smithfield 504 14.88 7,497.80 Salem 890 14.22 12,662.00 Sandwich 437 111 4,853.01 Vassalboro 224 9.35 2,095.00
RECEIPTS FROM MEETINGS
Connecticut Valley New peven (OAS
100. New London Oa $ aera Pleasant Street 370.00 Monadnock 375.00 Storrs 500.00
Mt. Toby 810.00 $ 8,566.00
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Dover Salem § 390.00 Dover 225.00 Acton . Concord 150.00 Amesbury 50.00 Gonic 200.00 Cambridge 8,500.00 Weare 72.40 Lawrence 922.00 Wellesley __ 2,150.00 Falmouth $12,662.00 Durham 974.84 Sandwich Falmouth 500.00 Allen’s Neck S$ §©6. 625.00 Forest Avenue 450.00 Dartmouth (Smith Neck) 300.00 Windham 275.00 New Bedford Sandwich (NH) 100.00 New Bedford Prep. 400.00 Parsonsfield 50.00 Long Plain 55.00 $ 2,349.84 Mattapoisett 325.00 Sandwich Monthly Mtg. Northwest East Sandwich 550.00 Bennington $ 398.00 West Falmouth 478.01 Burlington 600.00 Yarmouth 720.00 Hanover 1,000.00 Swansea 1,000.00 Plainfield Westport 200,00. Putney 224.70 $ 4,853.01 $ 2,222.70 Vassalboro Sane -Smithfield Camden Eeaeral Island-S anes China ta 510.00 North Dartmouth 400.00 North ae eeu) Providence 3,775.00 a pou ‘41 e: Vassalboro 800.00 Smithfield 1,222.80 3 Winthrop 355.00 Westerly 1,000.00 ~~ Worcester 950.00 $ 2,095.00 $ 7,497.80 TOTAL $40,893.75 COMPARATIVE BALANCE SHEET Dr; 1970-71 1969-70 Cash — Checking Account Reserve $ 7,906.85 $ 7,522.03 Cash — Checking Account 12,056.40 8,876.97 Cash — Petty Cash 50.00 50.00 Field Secretary Retirement Fund Deposit 287.86 218.01 Sun Federal Savings & Loan Assn.
Student Loan 1,000.00 1,000.00 Roger Williams Savings & Loan Assn. 12,284.33 11,741.59 Fund for Printing Discipline 3,468.57 3,996.44 Book Sales S308 95.98
$37,137.54 $33,556.88 Cr Field Secretary Retirement Fund 287.86 So. Seed Combined Budgets 1,565.66 1,438.02 Income Tax Withheld — Federal 44.00 41.40 Income Tax Withheld — State of Maine 4.30 3.60 Field Secretary Retirement 80.00 Friends United Meeting Travel Pool 125.53 400.53 General Checking Account Savings income 1,906.85 1,522.03 Sun Federal Savings & Loan Assn. —
Student Loan 1,000.00 1,000.00 Roger Williams Savings & Loan Assn. 12,284.33 11,741.59 Guilford Monthly Meeting Assets 303.60 303.60 General Equalization Fund 1,966.45 2,968.85
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1,259.53 2,054.05 789.91 6.00 416.00 1,076.68 200.93 355.66 4,310.56 872.76 1,122.36 811.78 790.14 300.00 250.00 333.99 740.00 1,116.00 162.61
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Income for Committee on Friends’ Responsibilities for Victims of Prejudice and Poverty as of May 31, 1971, was $9,072.93 (including $1,116.00 reported in the Yearly Meeting Treasurer’s report). In May $500.00 was sent to the Yearly Meeting Treasurer for use by the Minute 74 Committee.
ERNEST H. WEED, Assistant Treasurer
AUDITOR’S REPORT
On June 23, 1971, I examined the Treasurer’s accounts of the New England Yearly Meeting of Friends for the year ending May 31, 1971. Cash receipts and expenditures were checked for the year and the savings and checking account books were compared with the trea- surer’s records.
I would recommend that anyone sending money to the ‘Treasurer include his return address or an address to which the receipt should be sent. I would also suggest that the chairmen or treasurer of each committee should check carefully the Yearly Meeting Treasurer’s report in regard to the receipts and expenditures for his particular committee. ;
It is my opinion that the Treasurer’s report represents a true pic- ture of the Yearly Meeting finances for the fiscal year 1970-1971.
BENJAMIN H. CATES
32. Thomas R. Bodine, on behalf of the Quarterly Meeting Study Committee, asked for final approval of the changes in Faith and Practice given preliminary approval last year to dis- continue the Yearly Meeting on Ministry and Counsel, estab- lish a new Committee on Ministry and Counsel which would assume the duties of the former Interim Committee and Meet- ings and Extension Committee, and to allow the members of the new committee on Ministry and Counsel to be named directly by the Monthly Meetings, with some named at large by the Yearly Meeting.
On page 215 in the new paragraph that has been added following the first paragraph under F, delete the word “and” after the words “to serve on the Yearly Meeting Finance Committee for one year” and add after the words “‘to serve on the Yearly Meeting Nominating Com- mittee for one year” the phrase: ‘“and one person to serve on the Yearly Meeting Committee on Ministry and Counsel for one year” so that the whole paragraph would read as follows:
“Kach Monthly Meeting should at its May session each year appoint one representative and may appoint further representatives up to the number of five to attend the Yearly Meeting. The Monthly Meeting at its May session should also appoint one person to serve on the Yearly Meeting Finance Committee for one year, one person to serve on the Yearly Meeting Nominating Committee for one year, and one person to serve on the Yearly Meeting Committee on Ministry and Counsel for one year, with no one person serving for more than five consecutive years, the appointees to assume their duties at the conclusion of the Yearly Meeting sessions”.
On page 224, add a new paragraph at the end:
“M. The Committee on Ministry and Counsel. The Committee on Ministry and Counsel consists of those persons designated by the Monthly Meetings for the purpose, together with such other persons as the Yearly Meeting may wish to add. The Committee should be responsive to leadings of the Spirit throughout the Yearly Meeting,
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and endeavor to foster the spiritual growth and strengthen the reli- gious life of the membership. Among its specific duties are the fol- lowing: to nurture local Meetings, to arrange for intervisitation among Meetings, to encourage and assist local Meetings in their out- reach to the wider community, to oversee the worship at Yearly Meeting sessions, to plan the session on Ministry end Counsel at Yearly Meeting, to receive reports on spiritual condition from local and Quarterly Meetings and report on them to the Yearly Meeting, and to care generally for the spiritual condition of the Society.”
On page 237 in the first paragraph under D. delete the last two sentences starting with “It should appoint ..”
On page 238 delete the entire section E. on “Yearly Meeting on Ministry and Counsel.”
This was approved.
33. Thomas R. Bodine, for the Quarterly Meeting Study Committee, outlined the necessary changes in Faith and Prac- tice to define the duties of representatives, as follows:
On page 220 insert an additional paragraph following the first paragraph on the page as follows:
DUTIES OF THE REPRESENTATIVES
The representatives are convened early in the Yearly Meeting ses- sion by the Clerk of the Yearly Meeting. They organize themselves by naming a presiding clerk and a recording clerk. They receive the report of the nominating committee appointed by the previous year’s representatives and recommend to the Yearly Meeting the names of persons to serve as clerks of the Yearly Meeting to take office at the close of the Yearly Meeting session. The representatives name a new nominating committee of representatives to bring to the following year’s representatives the names of persons to serve as Clerk, Record- ing Clerk, Reading Clerks and other Clerks, if any, of the Yearly Meeting to take office at the close of the following year’s session of the Yearly Meeting. At any time during the Yearly Meeting session except during actual business sessions, a meeting of the representa- tives may be called by the Clerk of the Yearly Meeting, the clerk of the representatives, or upon the request of any five representatives to consider matters before the Yearly Meeting which can best be discussed in a smaller group, any recommendations growing out of such consideration by the representatives to be referred to the Yearly Meeting for action. The representatives report back to their local meetings on the work and life of the Yearly Meeting session.
Preliminary approval was given, subject to final approval in 1972.
34. The Quarterly Meeting Study Committee was continued and asked to evaluate procedures dealing with memorials.
35. In accordance with the action in Minute 32, the Nomin- ating Committee was instructed to bring to next year’s ses- sions the names of six persons to serve at-large on the Finance Committee and six persons to serve at-large on the Committee on Ministry and Counsel on a three-year rotation basis.
36. The Directors of Woolman Hill, Inc. requested the Yearly Meeting to name a member to the Board of Directors
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of Woolman Hill. The request was approved and the Nomin- ating Committee was asked to bring forward a name.
37. The following New England Friends plan to attend Indiana Yearly Meeting in August at the time of its sesqui- centennial observance: David Martin, Jean Tibbils, David and Margaret Douglas. They will carry the greetings of New Eng- land Yearly Meeting.
38. Howard and Mary Reed and daughter Nancy will take a minute of greeting to Pacific Yearly Meeting sessions in August.
39. The report of the Board of Managers was received and placed on the Clerk’s desk for Friends to examine.
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS OF INVESTMENTS AND PERMANENT FUNDS
It is desirable to establish guidelines for effective continuity of investment policy. Consequently, during the year, your Board of Managers of Investments and Permanent Funds has devoted sub- stantial time to a consideration of the investment policy which should be followed, both currently and looking to the future.
In looking to the future, an investment program was agreed upon. This established the total return on investments (traditional income plus gain) as an over-all objective and set up optimum percentages in the various investment categories. As opportunity offers, the number of items in the portfolio is being reduced, and new purchases, or additions to securities already held, are made in such amounts as will somewhat simplify the portfolio.
We reaffirm that, in pursuing the above program, we will not invest in firms depending on war material, alcoholic beverages, gambling, or tobacco. We will continue to be conscious of a firm’s causation of environmental pollution.
Due to the special circumstances of the times, in 7th mo., 1969, the Board took the quite unusual step of making a loan to a participant in the pooled funds, namely Lincoln School. We are pleased to report that Lincoln School has been able to refinance through a commercial bank loan at a favorable rate, and has repaid the pooled funds before the first maturity date of its loan. This repayment by the Lincoln School permits the Board to pursue long term investment objectives in the interest af all participants in the pooled funds.
From time to time the Chairman and other members of the Board are asked about the source, purposes, use, or restrictions on income from some fund in the investment pool. Your Board does not offi- cially have that information. The records as to deeds of gifts, clauses of wills, and so forth, should be in the minutes of the Meeting or Institution benefited.
Income from funds turned over to the Board for investment is paid to a designated treasurer for that fund. We have no record of the original source of the fund or of its use. We urge Friends to use great care in the recording of gifts and in observing the wishes of the benefactors.
With this report is submitted a copy of the Investment Ledger as of December 31, 1970, the list of securities, the units assigned to them, and the carrying units.
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The following organizations have entrusted their funds with us for investment: LINCOLN SCHOOL — Special Funds LINCOLN SCHOOL FOUNDATION MOSES BROWN SCHOOL — Special Funds MOSES BROWN FUND YEARLY MEETING SPECIAL FUNDS NEW ENGLAND FRIENDS HOME FRIENDS MEETING AT CAMBRIDGE YEARLY MEETING FUNDS YEARLY MEETING FRIENDS AT SMITHFIELD
REPORT OF THE AUDITORS OF THE PERMANENT FUNDS The accounts of The Board of Managers of Permanent Funds have been examined and the Auditors Committee is satisfied that all accounts are in proper order.
GORDON ROBERTS
REPORT OF THE EQUALIZATION FUND COMMITTEE Assistance to attend the 1970 Yearly Meeting sessions:
Number : Amount of Aid Adults ih $ 145.20 Young Friends xl 454.10 College Age 1 16.80 Juniors 31 635.50. 60 $1,251.60
40. Gertrude Lawrence reported for the Missionary Com- mittee. Marion Baker from Henniker, N.H., who will go to East Africa as a teacher, spoke of the changing concept of mis- sions and invited us to consider the role of Quakerism in un- derdeveloped nations.
Harold Smuck, Associate Secretary of the Friends United Meeting, spoke of the diverse and worldwide fellowship of Friends working in continuing partnership in such widely separate areas as Jamaica, Cuba, East Africa, Mexico, and the Middle East. He reminded us that at least one third of the members of the Friends United Meeting are not in the United States.
Jean Zaru, Clerk of the Near East Yearly Meeting, brought us loving greetings from her Yearly Meeting and testified that Friends schools at Ramallah are a great witness to peace. Though these schools cannot change the political situation, they can help children live in peace and in a true spirit of Christian love.
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REPORT OF THE MISSIONARY COMMITTEE
The Missionary Committee has met on Committee Days during 1970-71 and makes the following recommendation:
That education on missionary work (outreach) is vitally needed and could be directed through the Monthly Meetings in New Eng- land. Items of interest can be found in the “Jottings” and “Quaker Life’ (FUM), the “Friends Missionary Advocate” (USFW) and “Indian Progress” (Asso. Ex. Comm. on Indian Affairs). A wider use of these publications is urged for meetings in New England.
The sub-committee on the Freedmen’s Fund (Clarabel Marstaller, chairman) reports distribution of the Fund as follows:
St. Augustine’s College, Raleigh, N.C.
Senior student $ 500.00 Junior student 500.00
Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN Sophomore student 500.00 Carolina Friends School, tuition aid fund 500.00 $2,000.00
The sub-committee on Indian Affairs (Herman Lawrence, chair- man) has visited meetings in Gonic, South Durham, North Weare, Lynn and Lawrence showing slides provided by the Associated Execu- tive Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs, as well as at Committee Day meetings.
Louise McManus, through World Health Organization, is seeking young women from Kenya to come to this country to train for nurs- ing Scholarships are available for young women who will return to their native country to work after finishing training.
The Committee is vitally concerned that the resources of this coun- try be made available to those in need, through personal services, educational facilities, and health and hospital training.
41. Archie Meshenuk, Chairman, spoke to the China Camp Committee report, suggesting the use of China Camp property by other Friends groups in the spring and fall.
REPORT OF THE CHINA CAMP COMMITTEE
Friends China Camp embodies Quakerism in its facilities, activities and atmosphere.
The facilities are now lacking in no major need yet retain a simple and rural character. Recent years have seen the completion of a beach house, a director’s cabin, a service building and two additional cabins to the rear of the service building — one relocated and one new. The past year marked the acquisition of approximately fifty acres of land adjacent to and extending beyond the old north bound- ary of the camp.
With gratitude to Hartford Monthly Meeting, the final payment on its loan for the service building has been possible by the generous contributions of many Friends. Payments on any remaining unre- deemed pledges toward the service building will be applied toward the recent land purchase.
The Camp Committee is grateful to Hartford Monthly Meeting and Friends Meeting at Cambridge for their most expeditious loans, mak- ing the land purchase possible when it became available virtually at a moment’s notice. Of the $9500 borrowed, $3500 has already been repaid. On the new land, close by the highway, are a slightly fire- damaged four room cape cod with a dormer on the unfinished attic,
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a large barn and two sheds. The committee, finding no suitable use for these structures within the scope of the camp program, has offered them for sale with one-half acre of land.
The camp activities have been expanded to provide a multi-age session for the first time during the coming season. This will embrace youth from grade four through grade 12. The family session is al- ready “oversubscribed” into “only tenting available.” This will be under the direction of Edwin Hinshaw. Enrollment in other sessions continues to grow and capacity registration is probable.
Off season youth seminars continue to utilize the camp and Friends are encouraged to avail themselves of the grounds for study groups and retreats.
The additional acres lie ready for trail blazing, the kitchen awaits the bakers of China Camp bread and blueberry muffins, the pier extends invitingly into the lake and the stars inspire awe through smog-free skies.
Most important, however, is the atmosphere of China Camp — a special quality for nurturing both the individual and associations, that strengthen through yearly meeting sessions and midwinter con- ferences. We are indebted to the inspired direction of Edwin Hinshaw and our most recent directors, Donald and Paula Flemming, who will again fill this role in 1971.
There continue to be two needs — first the sustained generosity of Friends, second, and more important, the encouragement of young Friends to experience this adventure — China Camp.
CHINA CAMP STATEMENT OF INCOME AND EXPENSE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1970
Actual Budget Balance, January 1, 1970 $ 797.47 Income: Camp Fees 4,385.00 $5,595.00 Contributions 2,374.29 1,300.00 Yearly Meeting Allotment 1,600.00 1,300.00 Scholarship Allowance 100.00 — Miscellaneous 49.38 — 8,508.67 8,195.00 Service Building 4,529.00 — Total Income (Net) $13,037.67 $8,195.00 Expenses: Salaries 3.450.00 4,200.00 Food 1,054.85 1,400.00 Insurance 436.80 400.00 Utilities 382.73 500.00 Routine Maintenance 150.00 500.00 Major Repairs 91.000 100.00 Promotion and Postage 167.74 350.00 Travel 90.00 200.00 Program Supplies 117.95 200.00 Scholarship a 100.00 Committee and Staff Training — 100.00 Miscellaneous 42.16 50.00 6,470.77 8,100.00 Capital Improvements 326.20 100.00
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Repayment on Loan 6,000.00 — Deed for Property 91.00 — Total Expenses (Net) $12,887.97 $8,200.00
Balance, December 31, 1970 $ 947.17
CASH ACCOUNTS Balances, December 31, 1970 Federal Trust Company:
Checking Account $2,363.00 Less Checks Outstanding 1,591.00 $ 772.00 Savings Account 89.17 Cash on Hand 86.00 Total Cash, December 31, 1970 $ 947.17
GEORGE CATES, Treasurer
Having examined the records of China Camp for the year ending December 31, 1970, I conclude that the financial statement properly reflects the year reviewed.
IRA M. WINE, Auditor
REPORT OF THE NEW ENGLAND FRIENDS HOME COMMITTEE
The happy family atmosphere for which the Home has been known has been a satisfaction to the Committee through the year, and there have been increasing numbers of cordial contacts with individuals and organizations in the local community. Residents have repeatedly told us of their feeling of happy Christian fellowship with their fel- low tenants.
Many meetings throughout the New England area have responded to the request to name specific contact-persons to whom communica- tions about the Home might be sent, and some of these have been welcome visitors during the year. Increasing contact with others in the Yearly Meeting would be welcome.
In many ways this has been a difficult year for the Home, and much concern has resulted from staffing problems. At the time of report- ing, Maurine Parker, the Director, is preparing to leave, and no re- placement has been found. It appears that it may be necessary that members of the Committee assume the Director’s duties during the further period of search.
Charlotte Hett and her husband left during the year, as did “Jo” Brandt, our cook of many seasons. After a period of anxious and unfruitful search, we were fortunate to have obtained the services of John Grossman, Steven Davies, and Rhoderic Harrison, who are serving their required period of alternative service as conscientious objectors. :
Rising costs of operation and the very small group of residents over whom these costs must be spread have produced a situation requiring two increases in rates over a comparatively few months, and in spite of this a deficit is anticipated. Maintenance costs and improvements required by more stringent licensure regulations have required the expenditure of larger sums than in most recent years. Several items of major equipment have been replaced, including the kitchen stove, and a micro-bus has been purchased to provide transportation to the residents. The resulting increased mobility of the members of the “family” has been most welcome.
Several times during the year rooms have been unoccupied for considerable periods, partly in an attempt to keep openings ready for
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Friends who might need to come. However, a survey of monthly meetings, as yet not complete, has suggested that there are few im- mediately prospective applicants. The Committee is particularly anxious to know of any elderly Friends who might be candidates within the next year or two. A recommendation has been made to the early Meeting that some reconsideration be given to the question as to whether the House still represents the best way in which to ex- press our feelings of responsibility for older members.
NEW ENGLAND FRIENDS HOME TREASURER’S REPORT
January 1 — December 31, 1970 CASH SUMMARY
Cash on hand and in Bank, January 1, 1970, as adjusted $35,927.22 Additions: Petty Cash (not included in 1969 Report) 100.00 Legacies received in 1970: George Wolkins Trust, in memory of
Johanna W. Wolkins $ 7,000.00 Marion Holmes 5,000.00 Katherine Haviland... 7,000.00 19,000.00 Restricted Gifts received in 1970 20.00 Interest earned on Restricted Funds 1,027.60 56,074.82 Deductions: Expenditures, not included in Current Operations:
Painting of outside of Home, 142 expense 1,800.00 Termination Pay to Johanna Brandt after
7 years service 500.00 Purchase of Volkswagon Station Wagon 2,914.00 Net amounts for Home furnishings, repairs
and maintenance, not charged Current
operations 306.36 Excess expenditures from Current Operations 3,461.92 8,982.28 Cash on Hand, December 31, 1970 National Bank of Plymouth County 5,100.29 Provident Institution for Savings Special Notice Account 2e-502:01 Regular Savings Account 14,290.12 Petty Cash 200.00 $48,142.72 Less — Accrued Taxes 588.18 Board and Room Deposits 462.00 1,050.18 47,092.54.
Note 1— The above legacies amounting to $19,000 were received without restrictions. However, New England Friends Home Committee has chosen to reserve these funds for special purposes.
Current Income:
Boarders . $32,081.13 Huntington-Dixon Trust and Other Funds Income $29°339.75 Less — Subsidies to Friends residing in the Home _=_2,, 758.28 6,581.47 Bank Interest and Dividend on stock held by the Committee 781.10
Unrestricted Contributions under $1000 each 360.00
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Donations for Meals and Overnight 592.95 40,897.25 Current Expenditures:
Salaries 22,798.11
FICA Taxes 1,424.99
Employees’ Medical Insurance 170.20
Telephone 436.09
Laundry 374.92
Supplies 348.50
Provisions 6,554.78
Repairs and Maintenance - House & Grounds 4,600.00
Home Furnishings 600.00
Insurance 919.82
Accounting 425.00
Utilities - 4,792.79
Car and Travel 286.31
Advertising for Personnel 216.36
Subscriptions 3.50
Office Supplies 345.26
Director’s Discretionary Fund 9.08
Miscellaneous Expense 53.46 44,359.17 Decrease charged to General Fund $ 3,461.92
During 1970 a more formal bookkeeping system was installed in order that current operations might more accurately reflect our costs.
There was an increase of approximately 10% in the charges for room and board.
We have in 1971 established a depreciation schedule in order that our report to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts may more nearly represent our actual costs. It is on the basis of that yearly report that the State determines the allowance for room and board for those receiving public assistance.
The retroactive depreciation for 1970 amounts to $4,489.17.
POLLY WOOD, Treasurer
42. John Sexton, from the Baltimore Yearly Meeting and the Friends World Committee, told the Yearly Meeting of the purpose and organization of the One Percent More Plan. In- terested individuals would pay 1% of their income after taxes to the Yearly Meeting support of a World Resources Program. We are asked to examine the effects of our affluence and through this self-imposed tax to give active support to world wide projects concerned with the problems of pollution, popu- lation, and disarmament.
43. The Peace and Social Concerns Committee of the Year- ly Meeting requests that the Yearly Meeting release the Peace and Social Concerns Committee from its responsibilities as recorded under Minute 60 of the Yearly Meeting, 1970, and have that responsibility transferred to the Executive Council Subcommittee on Friends’ Responsibilities for Victims of Pre- judice and Poverty which has requested this change. This was approved.
44. The Nominating Committee presented the names of Friends to serve on the Woolman Hill Board of Directors, the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Council of Churches, and Moses Brown and Lincoln School Committee. These were approved.
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45. Ruth Woodbridge introduced a program on “Faith into Practice,” based on Chapter 5 of Faith and Practice. A series of brief skits illustrated ways in which Friends had lived their testimonies. Then a panel of Andrew Grannell, Miriam Brown, Will Franz, and Teresa Wyman, with Samir Haddad as moderator, introduced and led a discussion of Friends’ testi- monies on simplicity, non-violence, economic practices, and recreation.
46. Miriam Brown reported on the take-over of the 1971 Philadelphia Yearly Meeting by blacks and of the remarkably helpful effect of the reading of the New England Yearly Meet- ing epistle of 1970. The epistle documented our urgent con- cern in the matter of racial injustice.
47. Robert Lyon, reporting for the Nominating Committee of the Yearly Meeting representatives, submitted the following names for clerk, recording clerk, and reading clerks:
Presiding Clerk GORDON M. BROWNE, JR. Recording Clerk NANCY BOOTH (Anne C.) Reading Clerk MARJORIE BAECHLER Reading Clerk ROBERT CATES
These were approved. The names of the Nominating Com- mittee for 1972 were read. Robert Lyon’s report included sug- gestions regarding naming assistant clerks and a concern that Young Friends be appointed to the Nominating Committee.
48. Barbara Haddad, for the Archives and Historical Re- cords Committee, urged that Monthly Meeting records be kept on Permalife paper for more permanent safe-keeping. This paper is available from the Committee.
REPORT OF THE ARCHIVES AND HISTORICAL RECORDS COMMITTEE
The Yearly Meeting Archives and Historical Records section in the Rhode Island Historical Society Library at 121 Hope Street in Provi- dence, R.I., is in working order. The committee has labored dili- gently to have the Records catalogued and the alcove intelligently set up for use. We moved in on schedule and have found a most congenial atmosphere throughout the Library. More and more we are sure that we are fortunate to have been offered this ideal location for our records.
The moving of our collection from the John Carter Brown Library took place on October 24, carried out by thirteen Yearly Meeting Friends — from Acton and Providence Meetings. There were three fathers and their teen agers, a graduate student among them, and members of our Committee. They have our sincere thanks for this valiant effort. We have had two typewriter tables and three chairs given to us and we have purchased two filing cabinets and a plain door which rests on the cabinets for our desk.
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All members of the Yearly Meeting Archives Committee have been very helpful in getting the details professionally worked out. There have been three formal committee meetings and some correspondence in between the meetings. Jane Foster reported to the Committee that there are 167 microfilm reels in the drawers in the main reading room that may be used at any time. There are 12 negative reels of NEYM 1845 to 1945 in our second floor alcove. We have finished microfilming our present non-current Records at a total cost of $5634.40. Haverford College and Swarthmore College have pur- chased positive reels of all Records done in the present effort.
The repairing of the Moses Brown and Obadiah Brown Library books — about 300 volumes — has recently been completed. The Committee again expresses grateful appreciation for the substantial financial help of the Obadiah Brown Benevolent Fund Committee for making this restoration possible. Without this money the work could not have been done and we are glad the members of the O.B.B. Fund Committee realized the importance of the restoration. We have had a 1782 map of New England Friends Meetings repaired by an expert paper restorer, William Spawn of Philadelphia, and a deed, 1710, East Greenwich, restored by George Cunha of the Boston Athenaeum.
Dorothy Fairbanks of Scituate, Mass., has continued to give her expert services as a typist for the catalogue cards and the making of the second draft of the Guide. The Guide is now finished and has been xeroxed and purchased by Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges. Other desiring it may also buy it. The Library of Congress will now accept a listing of our Collection as an item in the National Union Manuscript Guide since we are in a permanent location and we expect it to appear in their next issue.
As we are now recognized as the depository for the Records of the Meetings of the New England Yearly Meeting, we hope members will direct their thinking to the proper place for all Meeting records and for other books of interest, diaries, packages of family memora- bilia. These can be cared for in air conditioned, dust free quarters, and will be available when needed. We have on hand now 5000 sheets of that permalife paper which may be purchased from us at lc a sheet for the Record books of the Meetings. We have had it cut 814"" x 11” undrilled. It is supposed to last at least two hundred years.
There have been 15 researchers using our Records this winter and 15 genealogical requests. The subjects have varied and all have been interesting. The Library’s plan for a modern Manuscript Reading Room on the second floor (where we are located) has been completed and a formal dedication ceremony was celebrated on April 25 of this year. It is to be known as the David Patten Manuscript Reading Room and is most inviting. The Research Librarian has his desk in this room. He is assigned the task of overseeing all readers who ask for special material — which may include the Librarians access to the Quaker Records when we are not at the library. The Archives Committee is carrying out its plan to have a Friend working there a day a week. We recommend a visit to the Quaker Alcove in the R.I. Historical Society Library.
49. Barbara Haddad, reporting for the Christian Education Committee, announced the following attendance at Junior Yearly Meeting as of June 29: Pre-primary, 4; Primary, 5; Intermediate, 16; Junior High, 34; total, 59. Barbara Haddad thanked those who had helped with Junior Yearly Meeting.
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REPORT OF THE CHRISTIAN EDUCATION COMMITTEE
This committee held a well-attended meeting at Wellesley in Jan- uary where the problem of our many types of First Day Schools was the main topic. The committee members attending felt that our dis- cussion was helpful and wondered if a wider gathering with all interested members of all meetings might be useful. A letter was sent to all meetings asking for a brief descripticn of the type of First Day School being held and asking if a seminar on First Day Schools might be of interest. Seven replies were received and none ex- pressed any interest in a seminar or study session. There are well over 40 meetings who received this enquiry. No further action was taken.
Our next committee meeting was held in Cambridge in early April with plans for Junior Yearly Meeting as the main topic. Charles Thomas from the Earlham School of Religion was a visitor and offered us some useful suggestions on the workshops we planned for Yearly Meeting.
50. Samir Haddad, Clerk of the Moses Brown School and Lincoln School Committee, announced that Elwood E. Leonard, Jr. had been appointed president of Lincoln School Board of Trustees; Harris Rosen had been appointed president of Moses Brown School Board of Trustees.
Samir Haddad introduced Mary Schaffner, Headmistress of Lincoln School, and Peter Mott, Headmaster of Moses Brown School.
REPORT OF THE MOSES BROWN SCHOOL AND LINCOLN SCHOOL COMMITTEE
In addition to the organizational meeting during the Yearly Meeting session of 1970, the Committee met five times — October 2 and December 11, 1970, February 19, May 7 and May 23, 1971.
These meetings represented only a part of the total activity of the members of the Schools Committee, which included much study and preparatory work related to the activities of the sub-committees on Simplification of Governance, Religious Life and Nominations. Dur- ing the past year, the work of the Committee focussed on five speci- fic areas. Foremost was the continuation of the charge given the committee from the previous year, which deals directly with studying and recommending ways by which the governance of the schools may be simplified in such a manner as to facilitate faster operational deci- sions and plans without diluting the primary concerns of Friends, supporters, workers, and the administration. As a result, a separate report and recommendation has been prepared for presentation to Yearly Meeting during its 1971 session.
The second activity has dwelt on the care for the religious life of the Schools: and their community. The sub-committee for this pur- pose, working with the heads of the Schools and the faculty, has started and will continue its role as advisor in the development and planning of religious programs as part of the School life.
Thirdly, the Committee has followed through on the program for coordinate education at both schools. While the first year’s ex- perience has been received with enthusiasm, much effort will be needed to continue to enlarge on this first success to make it more than a token program.
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The fourth focus has dealt with the proposal to enlarge the school program at Moses Brown into an eleven-month year instead of the present nine. This promises to offer exciting prospects for educa- tional opportunities well in line with Friends’ concern for providing first-hand and community oriented personal experiences as part of a student’s learning process.
The fifth activity has been concerned with the program of develop- ment at Moses Brown School. With the recent completion of the ex- pansion at Lincoln School, efforts have been centered on a new phase of long range planning at Moses Brown. This is now in a formative stage with the projection for completion of the study phase during the coming year.
The work of Yearly Meeting Friends at and with the Schools takes place in many ways — through participation as Trustees in their operational sub-committees on Educational Policy, Finance, Planning or Executive; through the work of other Yearly Meeting Committees such as Minute 74, Young Friends, Peace and Social Concerns; and most importantly, through personal commitments and relationships.
The financial statement of the Lincoln School for the year ended June 30, 1970 audited by Christiansen and Company was received and is summarized below:
LINCOLN SCHOOL STATEMENT OF INCOME AND EXPENSE July 1, 1969 — June 30, 1970
Net Income for Year
Income: 7 Tuition $510,552.16 Dormitory 19,504.00 Board — Resident Students 43,741.75 Lunches — Day Students 17,723.36 Recess Lunches 0,714.33 Income from Investments 17,246.68 Interest — Savings Accounts 3,108.68 Scholarship Funds 17,400.85 Incidental Income from Students:
Books, Supplies, Typing and Reading 26,933.68 Application Fees 1,350.00 Graduation Fees 1,425.00 From Annual Giving 25,000.00 Balance of 1967 Annual Giving 1,432.92 Miscellaneous 750.50 $691,883.91
Expenses:
Salaries, Wages and Related Costs $473,909.34 Administration 42,555.31 Other Upper School Expense 8,703.65 Other Lower School Expense 5,087.00 Other Dormitory Expense 4,925.10 Other Dining Room Expense 68,005.89 Grounds 5,462.66 Buildings 25,197.69 Incidental Charges 24,108.51 Alumnae and Development Office 14,236.92
$672,192.07 $ 19,691.84
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BALANCE SHEET
Assets
Current Fund: Unrestricted: Cash $63,496.72 Accounts Receivable 3,604.10 Due from Plant Funds 168.20 Inventories 2,001.05 Prepaid Insurance 8,492.24 Total Unrestricted $ 78,092.89
Restricted: Due from Unrestricted 1,900.39 Investment - Pension Fund 50,524.16 Total Restricted 52,424.55 Total Current Fund Plant Fund: Land and Buildings 851,556.56 Furniture and Equipment 53,981.61 Total Plant Fund Capital Fund: Cash 10,391.37 Construction in Process 842,719.07 Total Capital Fund Total All Funds Liabilities and Fund Balances Current Fund: Unrestricted Accounts Payable 3,924.34 Registration Fees and Tuition 35,800.00 Due to Restricted Funds 1,900.39 Fund Balance 36,868.16 Total Unrestricted 78,092.89 Restricted: Fund Balances: Pension Fund 50,524.16 Other 1,900.39 Total Restricted 52,424.55 Total Current Fund Plant Fund: Fund Balance 905,538.17 Total Plant Fund Capital Fund:
Accounts Payable 33,247.21 Due to General Fund — Unrestricted 168.20 Note Payable (NEYM) 200,000.00 Fund Balance 619,695.03
Total Capital Fund Total All Funds
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$ 130,517.44
905,538.17
853,110.44
$1,889,166.05
130,517.44
905,533.17
853,110.44
$1,889, 166.05
The financial statement of the Moses Brown School for the
year ended June 30, 1970 was received:
MOSES BROWN SCHOOL
STATEMENT OF INCOME & EXPENSE
July 1, 1969 - June 30, 1970 Operating Revenue Resident Student Tuition Day Student Tuition
$ 197,438 785,195
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Registration Fees Application Fees Art, Sci., Test., Grad. Fees Chg. for Regular Lunches Chg. for Mid-Morn. Lunches Infirmary Charges Laundry Charges Chg. for Students Supplies Books & Stationery Athletic Goods Rentals Miscellaneous
TOTAL Less: Cost of Student Supp.
NET OPERATING REVENUE
Operating Expense Administration Instruction
Development
Kitchen & Dining Room Housekeeping Maintenance of Plant Operation of Plant Grounds
Student Aid.
TOTAL OPERATING EXPENSE OPERATING INCOME (DEFICIT) Non-Operating Income
Annual Giving 1970
Endowment Income Interest Income TOTAL Non-Operating Expense Pensions
(Less: Paid by Friends) Interest Miscellaneous
LOT ATS NET: NON OPER. INCOME-EXPENSE NET INCOME (DEFICIT)
MOSES BROWN SCHOOL
COMPARATIVE BALANCE SHEET
As of: 6-30-70 ASSETS
Current Assets This
Cash: Year Checking Account So 19782 Savings Accounts 9,553 Petty Cash Fund 1,500 Total Cash $ 29,785 Notes Receivable to Accounts Receivable PABA US (Less: Allowance for Doubtful) ( 1,159) Pledges Receivable: Annual Giving Net 15-523
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(
$1,096,243
38,123
$1,058,120
125,030
$1,099,111 40,991)
43,515 15,830 2,691
62,036
29,413
19,417)
40,043 28
50,067 11,969
($ 29,022)
Last Year
29,376
MINUTES OF THE YEARLY MEETING 47 Inventories: Books & Supplies 11,100 13,626 Prov. & Kitchen Supplies 1,342 1,158 Athletic Supplies for Sale 3,619 4,139 Prepaid Expenses: Insurance 4,885 4,006 Interest »,UD2Z 3,918 All Other 5,047 — TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS $ 96,659 106,180 Fixed Assets Buildings & Grounds 1,477,415 1,477,415 Furniture & Fixtures 195,341 179,538 TOTAL FIXED ASSETS $1,672,756 $1,656,953 Other Assets Pledges Receivable-Program of Progress Net 765 765 TOTAL OTHER ASSETS 765 765 TOTAL ASSETS $1,770,180 $1,763,898 LIABILITIES & INVESTMENT ACCOUNT Current Liabilities Note Payable: Program of Progress 424,800 424,800 Notes Payable: Current Operation 125,000 70,000 Accounts Payable 17,962 45,370 Employee Withholdings 3,742 3,698 Other Current Liabilities TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES $ 571,504 543,868 Reserves Prepaid Registration Fees 58,843 52,000 Prepaid Lunches 9 627 Special Funds 23,834 19,446 TOTAL RESERVES $ 82,686 eet AES Y INVESTMENT ACCOUNT Balance Beginning of Year 1,145,012 1,205,455 Current Year Income (Deficit) to Date ( 29,022) ( 57,998) TOTAL INVESTMENT ACCOUNT $1,115,990 $1,147,457 TOTAL LIABILITIES & INVESTMENT ACCOUNT $1,770,180 $1,763,898 51. The Moses Brown School and Lincoln School Commit-
tee offered the following minute for Yearly Meeting consider- ation:
Much has been said and written extolling the virtues and accom- plishments of Dorothy W. Gifford who for forty-five years has been an outstanding teacher of chemistry at Lincoln School. Her knowl- edge of this field and her teaching ability have been cited nationally. She has received many honors and tributes from individuals and organizations representing her profession.
Dorothy W. Gifford could justly be spoken of as “Miss Lincoln School.” For forty-five years she has been a vital factor in the entire life of the School. Her wise counsel and steadfast Quaker influence have played an important part during three administrations. Her contribution has helped greatly to maintain the high standards of scholarship and idealism Lincoln School enjoys today.
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The retirement of Dorothy W. Gifford in June, 1971, brings to mind the significance of her service to Quaker education in general and to Lincoln School in particular.
It is with pride and great appreciation that the Moses Brown School and Lincoln School Committee records in the minutes of the 1971 Yearly Meeting our gratitude for the able and devoted services of
Dorothy W. Gifford. It was approved.
52. Samir Haddad presented the recommendation on gover- nance of the Schools from the Moses Brown School and Lin- coln School Committee. After discussions in three separate business sessions, not finding ourselves in full unity with the proposed modifications of the governance structure of the Yearly Meeting Schools as recommended by the Schools Com- mittee, we asked T. Noel Stern, Thomas Hancock, Francis Wheeler, John Zahradnik, and four other Friends to be de- signated by the Moses Brown School and Lincoln School Com- mittee to serve as a committee to study the proposals with the hope that they may be able to unite on a modification of the proposals for presentation to the Permanent Board in the fall for its approval.
53. Thomas R. Bodine spoke to the report of the Student Loan and Scholarship Committee.
REPORT OF THE STUDENT LOAN AND
SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE
About all that can be said regarding activities of the Student Loan and Scholarship Committee during the past year is that no loan has been made since June 1970, although several inquiries have been received by the chairman during recent months.
_ It could also be stated that recipients of loans who should be mak- ing payments with interest by now, having graduated from college some time ago, are mostly negligent about these financial responsibil- ities. Several do not even bother to answer the letter reminding them interest is due. Only two payments have been made in the past year, totalling $276.72. One loan has been running for 15 years.
Perhaps there is something misleading about the name of this com- mittee which may frustrate the Young Friends who make inquiry. This is not a scholarship committee giving away grants, but a student loan committee asking 4% interest. Interest and payments on the loan are not required until the second half of the first year of earning (after Commencement).
One exception was made last June when a small “scholarship” was given to Minute 74 Committee from accumulated interest on the » capital funds or principal.
04. A draft of the 1971 New England Yearly Meeting epistle was presented by Louisa Alger. With one minor change, it was approved.
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NEW ENGLAND YEARLY MEETING EPISTLE
311th Annual Session To Friends Everywhere:
New England Yearly Meeting of Friends gathered at the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut, on June 25-30, 1971, for its three hundred eleventh session. Over three hundred fifty came, including twice as many Young Friends as last year. The grounds were beauti- ful, the weather lovely, and the days proved a time of spiritual growth, joyous for many.
Our Clerk set the tone for us, reading from Thomas Kelly, “The
possibility of this experience of Divine Presence... is the central: message of Friends. Once discover this glorious secret... and we no longer live merely in time... but also in the eternal.”
The whole Yearly Meeting was moved by Thomas Mullen’s message, in which he spoke of the necessity for “imaginative identification” with the suffering and the oppressed. One of our own members, who walks with those “in low and desolate places” showed us again that where sympathy teaches us to stretch out our hand to our brothers we must act with the love that makes us understand what they, not we, need and want. Quietly and confidently we took the next steps toward carrying out our resolution of last year to raise $100,000 for the victims of poverty and prejudice.
Words are splendid. We heard with joy that our last year’s epistle, telling of our commitment “to an undertaking to help our brothers find their way to that state of self-determination they. desire,’ was read to a Yearly Meeting in tumult with a crowd of the dispossessed demanding “reparations,” and that our words helped to provide a calmer, friendlier atmosphere.
But what are words without action? We plan action, taking for our own Tagore’s words: ‘He who comes to do good knocks at the gate; he who comes with love finds the door open.”
We have felt that this year we were even more of a family than usual. Like the voices of a family quartet which sang for us, so the strands of our lives twined together into one fabric; old talked with young and young with old in open criticism that bespoke mutual trust. We enjoyed the arts together, with some dramatics, much music, and the color and gaiety of a family fair. In our Bible sessions we had brought before us the richness, the magnificence, the high drama re- corded in the Testaments.
Lifted out of our daily lives, we have drawn inspiration from both quiet devotion and flaming prophecy. We go forward together gladly, and despite the hideous war and all the wrongs and sorrows of the world, we believe with George Fox that the ocean of darkness and death will be overcome by the ocean of life and of light through the infinite love of God.
Signed in and on behalf of New England Yearly Meeting of Friends,
GORDON M. BROWNE, JR., Clerk NANCY BOOTH, Recording Clerk
REPORT OF THE MOSHER BOOK AND TRACT COMMITTEE
The Mosher Book and Tract Committee is still giving books and Quaker Life to those Monthly and Preparative Meetings who request them. However, the Committee feels now that some changes must be made. The cost of books has risen steadily without a comparable increase in our available funds. The Committee has worked out the following plan which will be used this coming year (1971-1972).
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We are listing books in three categories: A — Books up to $3.00; B — Books up to $6.00; C — Books up to $10.00. Monthly Meetings may choose — 3 from A; or 1 from A and 1 from Bjsorieteaomec: Preparative Meetings may choose — 2 from A or 1 from B. This plan will be used this coming year but will be reviewed the following year. Comments from Meetings will be welcomed.
Because we overspent our allowance last year we have had to - forego our annual gift of $100.00 for educational materials or books to a foreign field. Under a new chairman this coming year we hope,
once again, to be solvent.
55. Newlin Smith presented the final budget of $51,070. and
following recommendations of the Finance Committee. These were approved. YEARLY MEETING BUDGET 1971-1972 Yearly Meeting Expenses Expenses of Yearly Meeting Sessions $ 650 Young Friends Yearly Meeting 200 Junior Yearly Meeting 500 Yearly Meeting Clerk’s Expense 200 Yearly Meeting Treasurer’s Expense 750 Printing of Yearly Meeting Minutes 1,200 SUB TOTAL $ 3,500 Field Secretary Account Field Secretary’s Salary (Part Time) 5,850 10% payment to Retirement Fund 650 Office Secretary 3,200 Travel and Other Expense 2,500 Office Rental 500 Equipment, Supplies & Postage 1,700 SUB TOTAL $14,400 Young Friends & Education Secretary Y.F, & Education Secretary’s Salary Tou Housing Allowance 2,000 Annuity 500 Blue Cross/Blue Shield 250 Secretarial Expense 1,000 Travel and Other Expense _ 2,700 SUB TOTAL $13,800 Joint Youth & Education (Part Time) 1,000 Yearly Meeting Committees Peace and Social Concerns 500 Young Friends (Activities) 250 Meetings & Extension 900 Christian Education 600 Executive Council & Minute 60 5900 Missionary 50 Archives & Historical Records 400 China Camp 1,500 Minute 74 Committee Expense 300 SUB eOTATS $ 5,000 Support of Friends’ Organizations American Friends Service Committee 200
Friends United Meeting: From Current Budget
$7,743
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Contribution to Missions* 1,800
Contribution to Activities 6,000
Assessment at $1 per member 3,543 Friends General Conference
Requested at 50c per member P72 Friends World Committee 530 Friends Committee on Nat’l. Legis. 500 Friends Council on Education 100
SUB TOTAL $12,645
Travel Expense of NEYM Representatives to AFSC, FCNL, FWC, FUM Boards, FGC Central Comm. & Executive
Council 300 Representatives to FUM Sessions (Travel Pool) 325 Project Equality 100
SUB TOTAL we 20
GRAND TOTAL $51,070
$45,573 ont = 9), wincrease
* $1800 from special fund under will; not included in expenditures to be approved, nor in funds to be raised.
RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE FINANCE COMMITTEE
1. That the financial support of the Yearly Meeting be derived from voluntary contributions of its members through the Monthly Meetings. It is recommended that each Monthly Meeting include in its budget a sum of money representing its fair share of the Yearly Meeting’s budget. This sum should be sent to the Yearly Meeting Treasurer in installments throughout the year, the final installment being sent by the 15th of May, for the books are closed on May 31. The amount each gives needs to be determined by the individual or Meeting in the light of its own conscientious consideration.
2. That the China Camp Committee, the New England Friends Home Committee and the Young Friends Committee continue to have their own treasurers and checking accounts for receipts and disburse- ments, but that all bills of all other committees shall be sent to the Yearly Meeting Treasurer for payment after approval and endorse- ment by the chairmen of the respective committees. That the Com- mittee on Friends’ Responsibilities for Victims of Prejudice and Pov- erty shall have its own bank account in the Yearly Meeting’s name, with an Assistant Treasurer of the Yearly Meeting as its treasurer, for receipts and deposits of funds, which shall be forwarded to the Yearly Meeting Treasurer as directed by the committee.
3. That the Treasurer be authorized to pay the expenses of the Yearly Meeting sessions and for the printing of the Yearly Meeting Minutes provided that these bills do not exceed by more than ten per cent the amounts budgeted therefor. That the Treasurer be authorized to pay the expenses of entertaining visiting Friends at the Yearly Meeting Sessions after approval by the presiding clerk and chairman of the Arrangements Committee. That the Treasurer be authorized to pay all other expenses with the approval and en- dorsement of the appropriate committee chairman up to and not ex- ceeding the amount included in the budget for said committee. Any payments in excess of the amounts included in the budget (or in the case of Yearly Meeting sessions and the printing of the Yearly Meet- ing Minutes, more than ten per cent in excess of the amount included in the budget) shall be made only with the additional approval of the Chairman of the Finance Committee.
4. That the Equalization Fund Committee, the China Camp Com- mittee, the Minute 74 Committee, the Committee on Friends’ Responsi-
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bilities for Victims of Prejudice and Poverty, the Friends General Conference Committee, the Friends United Meeting Committee, and the Friends World Committee representatives be given permission to appeal directly to the members of the Yearly Meeting for funds but that all other committees of the Yearly Meeting be requested not to do so without first having the approval of the Finance Committee.
5. Tnat the committees use their allotted funds in carrying out their particular responsibilities but refrain from contributing them to other organizations. .
6. That the Treasurer be authorized to accept money for transmit- tal to the Friends Committee on National Legislation in an amount up to 10% of the Yearly Meeting budget. }
7. That Ralph Austin be appointed to audit the accounts of the treasurer of the China Camp Committee, that Henry Baechler and Caleb Smith be appointed to audit the accounts of the treasurer of the New England Friends Home for the forth-coming year; and that Ernest Weed be appointed to audit the accounts of the treasurer of the Young Friends Committee for the fiscal year 1970-71 as well as for 1971-72. It is requested that in each case the auditors report be sent to the chairman of the Finance Committee in advance of Yearly Meeting.
8. That Mabel Russell and Kenneth Strobel be appointed to audit the accounts of the Yearly Meeting Treasurer.
9. That the audit of the Treasurer’s books for the fiscal year end- ing May 31, 1971 be accepted. The auditor reminds all of us that anyone sending money to the Treasurer should include a return address.
10. That John S. Taylor be appointed as Treasurer for the en- suing year or until his successor is appointed and qualified.
06. The appointment of John S. Taylor as Treasurer of the Yearly Meeting for the ensuing year or until his successor is appointed and qualified was approved.
o7. Jack Smith, a Vietnam Veteran Against the War, showed the Meeting a film of scenes from the Washington pro- test against the war interspersed with scenes of the hideous destruction and the brutal inhumanity which are going on every day in Indochina. Jack Smith spoke gratefully of the strong testimony of the Friends to end the war but reminded us of the necessity of continuing all types of pressure for peace. Vietnamization, he said, may remove American ground troops but will still leave American air forces, not to mention the Vietnamese, in combat.
08. The Missionary Committee makes the following recom- mendations: 1) that the name of the committee be changed to “Wider Ministries Committee.” This is (a) to answer those who object to or do not feel in accord with the word “mission- ary’ and (b) to be in line with the Friends United Meeting Wider Ministries Commission. 2) To include ex officio as members of this committee those New England Friends who may be members of the Friends United Meeting Wider Minis- tries Commission. This was approved.
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59. Attendance figures for the Yearly Meeting show a total enrollment of 364; 128 full time adults, 54 full time Young Friends, and 50 full time juniors (232 full time).
60. The Workshop on Exploring Plans for Retirement pre- sented a report of their deliberations.
REPORT OF THE WORKSHOP ON EXPLORING PLANS FOR RETIREMENT
Under the care of the New England Yearly Meeting of Friends, the Friends Home in Hingham, Mass., for the past nine years has rendered two much needed services. It has opened a home to a number of retired persons who no longer want to maintain their own homes — Quaker and non-Quaker, and it has spoken for Friends’ concern for the elderly — Quaker and non-Quaker.
However, the Home Committee now faces two serious problems. The Home is not large enough to be economically self-supporting. And it offers only one segment of care when in fact many are needed. These include:
Apartments for those who are retired but want to continue active in their own fields or in volunteer work.
Nursing supervision for those who do not need nursing care but do need just that — nursing supervision.
An infirmary for transitory medical care. Full nursing care for those with maladies which are on-going.
Freedom from the anxiety that a move from one facility to another will mean the loss of one’s old friends and the necessity for starting from scratch to make entirely new friends at a time when this becomes harder and harder. A sense of bond with all ages, not the isolation of a new kind of ghetto. The security of knowing that continuing care is centered in a continuing Meeting for Worship, a continuing family, and a continuing nurture of the inner light.
The New England Friends Home Committee in its report to the Yearly Meeting for 1970 recommended that ‘‘some consideration be given to the question as to whether the Hingham Home still repre- sents the best way in which to express our sense of responsibility to older members.”
The Workshop on Exploring Plans for Retirement discussed the more comprehensive issues. It is noteworthy that each day’s meeting drew more attenders than that of the day before. Particularly rele- vant was the contribution of several Friends who are retired, some now living in retirement centers built by other denominations or by Quakers outside this area. They pointed out that to get what they needed they had to move away from friends and family; they would prefer to stay here.
When we came to look into the specifics, we received many sug- gestions. Not all of them may be possible, but we feel that all of them merit further study:
1. An affiliation with a college or university. This would provide the residents a chance to teach or take courses. It would also provide students studying nursing, social work, nutrition, or the like, with actual experience in the field.
2. A location not on any major highway but close to a natural crossroads which would bring friends and family to the Center easily and in the course of routine getting about.
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A location which will not be too cold in winter and too hot in summer, and which will, if possible in New England, avoid imprisonment by ice and/or air conditioning.
Hopefully a location where the American Friends Service Com- mittee might want to establish an office, preferably with a Clothing Center where the residents can work.
A plan to develop and put to good use the many so-often-unused but so-very-real abilities of the retired.
An information, referral, and consultation center about re- sources for the retired, available for the use of all New Eng- land Meetings and their members as they need it.
An exploration into costs and funding possibilities. The federal government is actively sponsoring retirement centers for pri- vate groups. Would the regulations be consistent with Friends’ principles? With the criteria of the New England Yearly Meeting?
Having put forth all these good ideas, the Workshop found certain questions recurring. Here they are together with the answers as we see them:
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Would an expanded program mean expanding the present Hingham Home?
Probably not. Tne surrounding land there has been donated to a conservation program and the house does not lend itself to additions; that’s already been looked into by architects con- sulted by the Home Committee. But the possibilities should be reviewed again.
Would another site mean laying down the Hingham Home?
We are only thinking in terms of possibilities several years from now.
How large would the new program be? Would it mean Quakers were asked to operate a kind of public institution?
It should be large enough to be economical — and that’s a decision for the experts; it should be small enough to preserve the importance of the individual human being. We believe it should never be “institutionalized,’ and we believe it should always remain essentially “Quaker.”
What have other Quakers done outside New England?
There are 12 Friends retirement centers already in operation and two more building, ranging from California to New Jersey and as far south as Florida.
How did they raise the money? What is their working ex- perience?
We do not know. We would like to find out.
Realistically speaking, how fast could the plan be put into effect?
Not fast at all. Some Workshop members thought five to eight years, some thought 10 to 15 years.
Would the whole project have to be launched at once?
Certainly not. It would be blueprinted in a series of separate steps. We would start small with whatever part proves most feasible and add later, as other Quaker centers are doing.
We also know that unexpected complications and delays are muha They should even’ be a part of the initial time- able.
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8. Would Friends have to assume responsibility for all of the many kinds of facilities and services that have been discussed?
No. Only a feasibility study can clarify who should do what, but Friends should do only what no one else can do and make sure that we avoid duplicating or overlapping the work of any nearby agency or institution. For instance: is there a nearby nursing school which would like to establish a linkage with the infirmary? Is there an art school which would make its studios available to our members?
9. What would the monthly costs be to the residents? We think the Center should be within the reach of people of low and middle income.
10. Would it be for Quakers only? Would that be consistent with the spirit of Friends?
11. What is the real and present need among New England Friends?
We do not know. The only way to find out is to query them. We do know, however, that it is a demographic fact of Ameri- can life, born.out by the studies of the U.S. Bureau of the Census, that all parts of the country are sure to have a rapid increase in the population of those over 65.
So, in summary, your Workshop weighed needs, resources and gaps, and concluded that we need to know much more about all of them. But especially we think we need to learn about needs.
We therefore ask the New England Yearly Meeting to authorize the Workshop attenders to constitute themselves as an ad hoc committee on New England. Friends Retirement Needs, to report to the 1972 Yearly Meeting. If the Yearly Meeting does approve we will then ask the Hingham Home if we may join them for meeting for worship on Sunday, September 19, also asking if the Home Committee and all Home residents will join us afterwards for a first meeting of the new committee. We hope all other New England Friends who are in- terested will communicate with us that we may involve them as our plans develop.
The Workshop asked to be continued as an ad hoc committee to continue explorations together and to bring its findings to
Yearly Meeting in 1972. This was approved.
61. Robert Nichols brought a request from Friends for Human Justice, formerly the National Conference of Friends on Race Relations, that New England Yearly Meeting name a representative to Friends for Human Justice. This was ap- proved.
Dwight Wilson was appointed by New England Yearly Meet- ing for a one year term.
It was suggested that the Committee on Friends’ Responsi- bilities for Victims of Prejudice and Poverty consider whether it should collect and disburse funds for Friends for Human Justice.
62. Louis Marstaller, reporting for the Executive Council, recommended that next year’s Yearly Meeting be held at Geneva Point Camp, Lake Winnipesaukee, July 29-August 5, 1972. This was approved.
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63. Having been reminded by the Vietnam Veterans Against War of the tragedy going on in Indochina, the members of the New England Yearly Meeting of Friends again Join In concern that the Indochina war be ended promptly and so commit themselves to individual action on this matter. Clearly no one action will be appropriate for all, as the Light shines different- ly within each of us. But we share concern and gratitude for the many patriotic Americans, Friends and non-Friends alike, who in obedience to the Light put themselves in jeopardy as they undertake various non-violent acts of civil disobedience. We are encouraged by the obedience to the Light these actions represent, although many of us cannot accept all of the actions themselves. 7
64. The Yearly Meeting directed the clerks to send a letter on behalf of the Yearly Meeting, urging the President of the United States to act for the immediate withdrawal of all mili- tary personnel, including intelligence personnel, from Indo- china and to announce the date by which such withdrawal will be completed. |
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65. The Yearly Meeting directed the clerks to send a letter on behalf of the Yearly Meeting, cautioning the President of the United States against further military involvement of our country in the Middle East theater.
66. As our-sessions leave Taft School and Watertown, Con- necticut, we are very aware of the immense task of arrange- ments which has been the burden of a few devoted Friends over the past three years. We record our appreciation for the service of these Friends and express special gratitude to Fred L. Wheeler, for three years chairman of the arrangements committee, who has given countless hours and unbounded energy to make it possible for us to enjoy comfort and con- venience in our meetings.
67. We have come together, each with his own expectation of what Yearly Meeting would mean to him. Our labors to- gether, our good times together, our times of disagreement, and our times of clear corporate leading have all revised those expectations into experience, again different for each of us. Each of us leaves with his own sense of direction, partially shaped here. Yet in all this individual experience, what will be most memorable? Will it not be, for each of us, that we have loved one another, that we have been one family, and that we yearn to extend that sense of loving community which we have felt to all the world? It is to this task that our in- dividual efforts will be directed.
Now the three hundred eleventh session of New England
Yearly Meeting is completed. As we depart to the varied tasks to which we are called, may we heed the admonition of
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Peter: “Humble yourselves then under God’s mighty hand, and he will lift you up in due time. Cast all your cares on him, for you are his charge.” 1 Peter 5:6-7 NEB
We close, purposing with Divine assistance to work together during the coming year and to assemble in annual session at Geneva Point Camp, Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire, on July 29 - August 5, 1972.
GORDON M. BROWNE, JR., Clerk NANCY BOOTH (ANNE C. BOOTH), Recording Clerk
We hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and cerrect copy of the minutes as approved from time to fiume imthe foregoing schedule of sessions, to the best ef @ar Growledge and belief.
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YEARLY MEETING PROGRAM
A.M. P.M.
A.M.
P.M.
A.M.
P.M.
A.M.
PAE
Friday, June 25 Meeting for eat Permanent Board, Nominating Committee Opening Session. Opening Minute, Introduction of Visitors. Spiritual Condition Reports. Local Concerns. JYM Staff and Parents meeting Music Meeting on Ministry and Counsel. Evening Session. Keynote address, Thomas J. Mul- len, “On Getting to Where We ‘Want to Go by Being Who We Are.” Amongst the Stars. Executive Council, host
Saturday, June 26
Morning Worship
Business Session. Worship. Roll Call of Repre- sentives. Reports of Young Friends Secretary and Clerk, Nominating Committee, Permanent Board, Field Secretary, Office Secretary, Interim Committee, Meetings and Extension, Statistics Bible Half Hour, Gregory Harrison
Meeting of Representatives
Workshops
Playshops
Business Session. Executive Council, Sub-com- mittee on Friends Responsibilities for Victims of Prejudice and Poverty, Minute 74, Peace and Social Concerns, Releasing Young Friends
Music
Evening Session. Jon Newkirk, “A New Sense of at — Quaker Witness in ‘Washington in the ? iS 9
Committee Organization and Projection
Sunday, June 27
Morning Worship Bible Dialogue Groups Meeting for Worship Pena Family Fair: Multi-Media Fair
ea Symposium on Transnational Cooperation Choral Concert and English Hand Bell Ringing, Lambrequins of Lincoln School, T. James Hallan, Director. Play, “William Penn as a Young Man, ¥ Junior High Friends from Hartford and JYM, Thomas R. Bodine, Director
Monday, June 28 Morning Worship Business Session. Worship, Treasurer, Finance, Investments and Permanent Funds, Auditors, Equalization Fund Bible Half Hour, Gregory Harrison USFW Luncheon, USFW Triennial Conference report; Jean Zaru on Ramallah Committee Organization and Projection Workshops Playshops Business Session. Missionary, China Camp, New England Friends Home
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7:00 Music 7:30 Evening Session. ‘Faith into Practice,’ Ruth F.
Woodbridge, Coordinator. 1. Dramatic presenta- tions of Friendly Anecdotes (how some Friends have lived their testimonies); 2. Panel Presenta- tion and Discussion (can we live our testimonies
today? ) 9:00 Committee Organization and Projection Tuesday, June 29 6:30 A.M. Morning Worship . 8:30 Business Session. Worship. Representatives, Ar-
chives and Historical Records, Christian Education, Moses Brown School and Lincoln School, Student Loan and Scholarship
11:30 Bible Half Hour, Gregory Harrison
1:00 P.M. Committee Organization and Projection
2:00 Workshops
3:00 Playshops
4:30 Business Session. Correspondence (epistle), Mosher
Book and Tract, Finance (budget)
7:00 Executive Council Organization
7:00 Music
7:30 Business Session. Junior Yearly Meeting, Concerns
Wednesday, June 30 6:30 A.M. Morning Worship 8:30 Business Session. Worship. Arrangements for 1972. Unfinished Business, Concerns 11:00 Bible Half Hour, Gregory Harrison. Meeting for Worship. Closing Minute Ae) P.M. Permanent Board . WORKSHOPS
1. Contemporary Studies in the Book of James.
2. Exploring Retirement Programs for the Elderly.
3. Informal Rap with Young Friends.
4. Exploration of Racism in Our Society.
5. Mystical Experience Here and Now.
6. Reappraisal of Quaker “Rituals” (silence, special language, etc.)
7. Non-Violence.
8. Overseas Friends.
9. Quaker Service Priorities. How do Friends determine the factors in our society to which attention should be given; then how do we determine what action to take?
10. Listening. 11. Alternatives to Traditional First Day School. 12. A New Sense of Urgency — Quaker Witness in Washington in
the ’70s.
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Presiding Clerk Recording Clerk
Reading Clerk Reading Clerk Treasurer
Field Secretary
OFFICERS
GORDON M. BROWNE, JR.
NANCY BOOTH (Anne C.) (Resigned as of August 8, 1971)
Youth and Education Secretary
Office Secretary
Permanent Board
MARJORIE BAECHLER
ROBERT CATES JOHN S. TAYLOR
LOUIS J. MARSTALLER EDWIN E. HINSHAW
CLARABEL MARSTALLER
Clerk: THOMAS R. BODINE Recording Clerk: ROBERT BRILL
Thomas Bassett George Cates Karl Erickson
Margaret Douglas Richard Gove © Donald McLeod
John Barlow Russell Brooks Samuel Burgess
Robert Brill Paul Cates Gregory Harrison
Thomas R. Bodine Ralph E. Cook Dorothy Gifford
Ex officio:
For One Year Seth Gifford II Garrett S. Hoag Christel Holzer
For Two Years Daisy Newman Mildred Richardson Newlin R. Smith
For Three Years David Curtis Theodore Donovan Marion Jessell
For Four Years
J. Barclay Jones George Little Daria Meshenuk
For Five Years John R. Kellam Ruth H. Mellor Marion C. Smith
Executive Council, Retiring Clerk
Executive Council
Chairman: FINLEY PERRY Secretary: ELIZABETH MUENCH
For One Year
Robert Condon Russell Cornell Constance Way Lydia Willits
For Two Years
Margaret Cates Ellsworth Nepean Jeannette Smith Eleanor Wilson
Elizabeth L. Jones Ambrose Meyers Caleb A. Smith
T. Noel Stern
Andrew Towl Alan Walker Willard H. Ware
Gertrude Lawrence Leota Wadleigh David Witham Helen Wyman
Virginia Phillips Austin Wattles Philip D. Woodbridge
Virginia Townsend Susan H. Webb Ernest H. Weed Francis Wheeler
The Clerk, Field Secretary, Treasurer, Chairman of
For Three Years Elmer H. Brown Finley H. Perry Fred Wheeler Ruth Woodbridge
Clerk of the Yearly Meeting, of the Permanent Board, Retiring Clerk, Field Secretary, Youth and Education Secretary, Young Friends Clerk, Chairmen of all Yearly Meeting Committees, Executive Secretary of AFSC NERO, President of NEYM USFW
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Friends Responsibilities for Victims of Prejudice and ANE SYLVIA S. PERRY peeks
Robert Hindmarsh Elizabeth Kaynor Sylvia Perry | Howard Reed Jeannette Smith Eleanor Wilson
Chairman:
Phyllis Agard Ruth Burgess David Eister
Arthur Fink — Ralph Greene
David Spinney Annah Tucker - Ernest Weed Dwight Wilson David Witham “Teresa Wyman
Clerk of the Yearly Meeting, Chairman of Executive. Council, Field Secretary, Youth and Education Secretary
Archives and Historical Records Committee Custodian: THYRA JANE FOSTER Chairman: HELEN T. GIFFORD
For One Year Thyra Jane Foster Helen T. Gifford L. Ralston Thomas
For Two Years
Robert M. Agard Walter Grossman Barbara Haddad
Auditors of the Permanent Funds
For One Year:
For Three Years Thomas Bassett Mary Elizabeth Jones Theodore Paullin
Henry Baechler
For Two Years: For Three Years:
Kenneth B. White George Beal
China Camp Committee Chairman: ARCHIE MESHENUK Secretary: FRED L. WHEELER Treasurer: WILLIAM CATES
For One Year Ralph Austin Robert Hillegass Virginia Phillips Willard H. Ware Austin Wattles Fred L. Wheeler
For Two Years
Kenneth Beal Benjamin H. Cates John P. Grossman Archie Meshenuk Kenneth Strobel James Wyman
For Three Years
John Bean
Lois E. Brown Martha Donovan Herman Lawrence Nancy Marstaller Allan Warren
Ex officio: Youth and Education Secretary, Camp Treasurer
Christian Education Committee
Chairman:
BARBARA HADDAD
Secretary: DOROTHY SANGREY
For One Year Myrtle Austin Phebe Bower Barbara Haddad Mary Mangelsdorf Dorothy Meshenuk Dorothy Sangrey Marjorie Wheeler
For Two Years
Donald Booth Allan W. Eister Joseph Havens Shirley Leslie June J. Metcalf Mary Miller Auriel White
Correspondence Committee Chairman: LOUISA ALGER
For One Year
Ralph Greene Henry Williams
Ruth F. Woodbridge
For Two Years
Marjorie Baechler Jane Cook Miriam J. Brown
For Three Years Patricia Bailey Edna Cates Jean Constantineau Marjorie Hancock Howard R. Macy Lydia S. Slivinski Dorothy Wheeler
For Three Years Louisa Alger George Selleck Shirley Weed
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Equalization Fund Committee Chairman: HERMAN J. LAWRENCE
For One Year For Two Years For Three Years Elizabeth Ballard Bernice Douglas Margaret Douglas Mary Myers Herman Lawrence Joan L. Plumb Mildred Richardson Lawrence L. Parrish Constance Way
Finance Committee (Appointed by Monthly Meetings)
Chairman: NEWLIN R. SMITH
Vice Chairman: WESLEY C. PANUNZIO Charles Allen, Ralph W. Austin, Thelma Babbitt, David Berg, Thomas R. Bodine, Ruth Burgess, Norman Constantineau, Russell Cornell, David Douglas, Karl Erickson, Donald Flemming, Rudman Ham, Thomas Hancock, William Jarvis, Herman Lawrence, Helen P. Meader, Ellsworth Nepean, Robert Nichols, Hobart Mitchell, Wesley C. Panun- zio, Elvie K. Ramsdell, Rolfe Richardson, Caleb A. Smith, Newlin R. Smith, Doris Steinberger, Carl Stevens, Kenneth Strobel, Gavin Wright. Treasurer of the Yearly Meeting.
Friends General Conference Committee Chairman: T. NOEL STERN
For Three Years For Six Years Thomas R. Bodine Helen E. Brill Elmer H. Brown Miriam E. Brown Ruth Burgess Herman J. Lawrence Mary B. Mangelsdorf Mildred Roberts Kirk Roberts T. Noel Stern Jeannette Smith Ruth F. Woodbridge
The Clerk of the Yearly Meeting and of the Permanent Board
Friends United Meeting Committee Chairman: MARGARET H. WENTWORTH Friends Central Offices, 101 Quaker Hill Drive, Richmond, Indiana
47374. Composed of representatives from New England appointed to Commissions, General Board, and triennial sessions.
General Services Commission: Paul Mangelsdorf
Meeting Ministries Commission: Thomas R. Bodine, Elmer H. Brown, Edwin E. Hinshaw, Lelia E. Taylor
Wider Ministries Commission: Clarabel Marstaller, Willard H. Ware, Margaret H. Wentworth, Ruth F. Woodbridge
General Board: Thomas R. Bodine, Ruth F. Woodbridge; Edwin E. Hinshaw, ex officio
Representatives to Friends United Meeting, July 8-15, 1972:
Gordon M. Browne, Jr. Marion Jessell Alternates: Benjamin H. Cates Gertrude Lawrence Herman Lawrence Paul Cates Clarabel Marstaller Willard H. Ware Dorothy Hinshaw Eunice Strobel
Board of Managers of Investments and Permanent Funds Chairman: L. RALSTON THOMAS
For Five Years: Robert Wehmeyer Francis Wheeler For Four Years: John Zahradnik Caleb A. Smith For Three Years: C. Russell deBurlo, Jr. Proctor Houghton For Two Years: Thomas L. Brown Robert Hindmarsh For One Year: William M. Jose Newlin R. Smith
L. Ralston Thomas
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Ministry and Counsel Committee Co-Chairmen: ELIZABETH MUENCH & JEANNETTE SMITH From former Meetings and Extension Committee:
For One Year For Two Years From Quarterly Meetings: Moses Bailey William Foster Francis Wheeler Gregory Harrison Ruth Martocci Edna Cates Gregg Hibbs Ellsworth Nevean Ralph Cook Lelia Taylor Virginia Towle Ernest Weed
Appointed by Monthly Meetings:
Doris Ashley, Harold Booker, Maggie Bruce, Bette Chu, Richard Colman, Will Franz, Elizabeth Hathaway, Shirley Hill, Dorothy Hin- shaw, Christel Holzer, Elizabeth L. Jones, Bessie M. Klein, Herman Lawrence, David McAllester, Donald McLeod, Alice Morris, Elizabeth Muench, Adelaide Nichols, Mary Reed, Jeannette A. Smith, Leona Stevens, Eunice Strobel, Virginia Towle, Rosly Walter, Dawn West- cott, Emily Wilson, Philip Woodbridge, Shirley Weed
Minute 74 Committee Chairman: EMILY WILSON Secretary: CALEB A SMITH
For One Year For Two Years For Three Years Louisa Alger Eleanor C. Bailey Margaret Cates Gordon M. Browne, Jr. Thomas R. Bodine Thomas Hancock John R. Kellam Wesley C. Panunzio Gregory Harrison Caleb A. Smith T. Noel Stern Loraine Schmidt Emily Wilson Cathe Wright Ruth Stokes
Clerk of Moses Brown School & Lincoln School Committee Headmistress of Lincoln School
Headmaster of Moses Brown School
Field Secretary
Youth and Education Secretary
Moses Brown School and Lincoln School Committee Clerk: SAMIR HADDAD Recording Clerk: AURIEL M. WHITE For One Year *Eloise Houghton #Hobart Mitchell *Katherine B. Perry *“F. Warren Howe, Jr. *Jacqueline Nelson *Gordon Roberts #Margaret Sisson For Two Years *Seth Gifford II #*Samir A. Haddad #Eunice Strobel *Florence A. Greene *George W. Kidder III *Rosly Walter #Auriel White For Three Years #Robert Agard *Alan Kolp #Mary A. Reed #Robert Burgess *Russell Price #Henry Stokes #Silas Weeks For Four Years #Louisa Alger #Grant Frazer #R. Louise McManus *Klmer H. Brown *William Jose *Finley Perry *Caleb A. Smith For Five Years
#David Douglas #Dorothy Gifford *Irven V. Roberts *Donald N. Flemming #Edwin E. Hinshaw #Abram Sangrey *Clay Steinberger
Harris N. Rosen, President, Moses Brown School Trustees Elwood E. Leonard, Jr., President, Lincoln School Trustees
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Peter R. Mott, Headmaster, Moses Brown School Mary L. Schaffner, Headmistress, Lincoln School * On Moses Brown School Board of Trustees #On Lincoln School Board of Trustees
Mosher Book and Tract Committee Chairman: GERTRUDE LAWRENCE’
For One Year For Two Years For Three Years Melita Fisher Marian Cartland Maria R. Allen Barbara Haddad Anna Harvey Jones Ruth Howland Lillian Haslem Gertrude Lawrence Shirley Leslhe
New England Friends Home Committee Chairman: RUTH E. HOGE Secretary: PAUL GARDESCU Treasurer: POLLY WOOD
For One Year For Two Years For Three Years Lois Brown Richard Gove Paul Gardescu Thomas L. Brown Jane Ludman Ruth Hoge Helen Burgess Joseph Tardif Ruth Martocci Donald G. Fowke Polly Wood Ambrose Meyers
Committee en Friends Retirement Needs Chairman: KATHARINE TOLL
Eleanor C. Bailey, Thomas R. Bodine, Thomas L. Brown, Helen Hibbs,
Christel Holzer, J. Barclay Jones, Jessie Jones, Robert Lyon, Frances
Mann, Helen Meader, Mary Parker, Finley Perry, Thoreau Raymond,
slay Reed, Katharine Toll, Fred Wheeler, Emily Wilson, Maryanne ood.
Nominating Committee (Appointed by Monthly Meetings; four have unexpired terms from Quarterly Meeting appointments)
Chairman: LOIS E. BROWN
Lois Booth, Robert Brill, Lois Brown, Miriam E. Brown, Elizabeth Colman, Melita Fisher, Martha Gordon, Andrew Grannell, Marjorie Hancock, Gregory Harrison, Christel Holzer, Ruth A. Kellam, Norman W. Klein, Gertrude Lawrence, Ruth Martocci, Ruth Mellor, Jean Mitchell, Eva Otis, Mary Parker, Virginia Phillips, Elvie K. Ramsdell, Thoreau Raymond, Mildred Richardson, Eberhard Schmidt, Clay Steinberger, T. Noel Stern, Laura Townsend, Cora Tripp, Margaret Wentworth, David Witham.
Peace and Social Concerns Committee Chairman: DAVID MARTIN Secretary: ANNAH TUCKER
For One Year For Two Years For Three Years Nancy Booth Wilmer Brandt Norman Constantineau Florence Carpenter Frances Crowe Ralph E. Cook David Douglas Charles E. Fager Ralph Greene Mary Gregory Iona Fitzgerald John V. Hardiman Christel Holzer Ingrid Gunn Mary Hopkins Allison Kaufhold Nathaniel Hathaway Rodney Perry Sylvia Perry David Martin John Plank Abram Sangrey Everett Mitchell Frederick M. Sawyer Alan Walker David Spinney Katherine Stern
Annah Tucker Philip Woodbridge
DIRECTORY OF YEARLY MEETING 67 Quarterly Meeting Study Committee Chairman: THOMAS R. BODINE Secretary: GERTRUDE LAWRENCE Stanley L. Aldrich Raiph Cook Gertrude Lawrence Thomas Bassett David L. Curtis Caleb Smith Thomas R. Bodine Margaret Douglas Willard H. Ware Committee for Releasing Young Friends For One Year For Two Years For Taree Years Elizabeth F. Ballard Raleigh Bailey Ruth Kellam Michael Carter Sylvia Perry James Wyman Representatives on: American Friends Service Committee, Inc. For One Year For Two Years For Three Years Penelope Turton Jane C. Burgess Daisy Newman Miriam Zahradnik Lawrence L. Parrish
Friends Committee on National Legislation Chairman: SAMUEL BURGESS
For One ear For Two Years For Three Years Stuart Chapin Robert Condon Samuel Burgess Cynthia Reik Robin Willits Millicent Foster
Friends Council on Education: Samir Haddad Friends for Human Justice: Dwight Wilson
Friends World Committee, American Section and Fellowship Council
Chairman: MARGARET H. WENTWORTH
For One Year For Two Years For Three Years R. Louise McManus John Burgess Elmer H. Brown Margaret Wentworth Anne Humes Robert A. Lyon
Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Council of Churches: Mildred Roberts Alternate: Margaret Angell
Annual Meeting of Massachusetts Council of Churches Margaret Angell
Allan W. Ejister
Patricia Lyon
State Board of Church Women United of Massachusetts Gertrude Lawrence Alternate: Dorothy Sangrey
Quaker Men: Clay Steinberger William Penn House Board: For One Year: Samuel Burgess Woolman Hill Board: John R. Kellam
Student Loan and Scholarship Committee Chairman: THOREAU E. RAYMOND
For One Year For Two Years For Three Years Jane C. Burgess Thomas R. Bodine Eleanor C. Bailey Leota Wadleigh Mary Elizabeth Jones Thoreau Raymond Mary-Agnes Wine Alice M. Whiting Marion O. Hussey
United Society of Friends Women of New England Appoints its own officers)
President: Marjon Jessell Vice President: Gertrude Lawrence Secretary: Mildred Roberts Treasurer: Bernice Douglas
Auditor: Cornelia Pratt
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Secretaries of Departments
Literature and Reading Course: Lois E. Brown Missionary Education — Adult: Mildred Richardson Missionary Education — Children: Vivian Woodbury Stewardship: Ruth Mellor Christian Service Lucille Corthell Nominating Committee: For One Year: Dorothy Sangrey For Two Years: Mary Elizabeth Jones For Three Years: Ruth Woodbridge
Wider Ministries Committee (formerly Missionary Committee) Chairman: GERTRUDE LAWRENCE Secretary: GRACE LUDER
For One Year For Two Years For Three Years #Margaret Angell Michael Carter Jennie Booker #Jean Constantineau. *David Douglas Elizabeth L. Jones
Bessie Ewen Curtis A. Johnson Gertrude Lawrence *Clarabel Marstaller Marion Jones Grade Luder Herman Patt David McAllester R. Louise McManus *Corwin Perisho Ruth Mellor Edith Teague #Mildred Richardson Elliot Taubman Willard Ware Frances Schmid Philip Towle Ralph M. Williams
Ex. officio: Marion Jessell, President, USFW of NEYM Representatives to FUM Wider Ministries Commission *Freedmen’s Fund Sub-Committee #Indian Affairs Working Party
Young Friends Committee
Young Friends Officers Clerk: David Eister Recording Clerk: Laura Cates Treasurer: Teresa Wyman Crier: Bargets Hillegass (editor), Mary Quindsland, Emily Zahrad-
nic
Arrangements Committee: Steve Plumb, chairman, Alice Neece, Clark Wheeler, David Witham, Emily Donovan, Nancy Reed, Mary Quindsland, Cathy Stewart, Kathy Hillegass, Dale Walton, John Bean, Mary Ann Case, Steve Robbins, Paula Chu, Peter Kirkaldy.
RECORDED MINISTERS
Conn. Valley: Moses Bailey Agnes Harrison Russell D. Brooks W. Glenn Roberts
Dover: Oscar Frazer
Falmouth: George R. Hutchinson Dorothea Leonard Peter P. Jonitis Earl K. Sweatland
R.I.-Smithfield: Robert N. Cool Gren O. Pierrel George Jones, Jr. Willard H. Ware Harold W. Myers
Salem: Leslie H. Barrett Katharine H. Paton Elmer H. Brown Henry H. Perry Edwin E. Hinshaw George A. Selleck Alan Kolp James Toothaker Walter R. Miles James Wild
Sandwich: Gordon M. Browne, Jr. William C. Hartnett David Douglas Stewart Kirkaldy
Ernest H. Weed Vassalboro: Paul Cates Ralph D. Greene
Lelia E. Taylor
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DIRECTORY OF ADDRESSES, ZIP CODES, TELEPHONE NUMBERS
For Telephone area codes, consult your telephone directory
Agard, Phyllis, Box 49, North Bennington, Vt. 05257; 442-3387
Agard, Robert, Box 49, North Bennington, Vt. 05257; 442-3387
Aldrich, Stanley, RFD 1, South Windham, Me. 04082; 892-6330
Alger, Louisa R., 61 Garfield St., Cambridge, Mass. 02138; 876-9838
Allen, Charles, 101 Walnut St., Watertown, Conn. 06795; 274-3648
Allen, Harry W., 27 Slade’s Corner Rd.; Dartmouth, Mass. 02714; 636-4327
Allen, Maria R., 101 Walnut St., Watertown, Conn. 06795; 274-3648
American Friends Service Committee, 160 N. 15th St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19102
American Friends Service Committee, N.E. Regional Office, 48 Inman St., Cambridge, Mass. 02139; 864- 3150
Amsden, Henry, Weare, N.H. 03281
Anderson, Douglas, 126 Smithfield Rd., Woonsocket, R.I. 02895
Angell, Margaret, 57 Pleasant St., Paxton, Mass. 01612: 753-3457
Archer, Richard, 232 King St., RFD, Whitman, Mass. 02382: 447-3686
Ashley, Doris, P.O. Box 68, Dartmouth, Mass. 02714
Ashley, Helen, 1443 Main St., RDA, Acushnet, Mass. 02743; 763-5771
Austin, Myrtle, South China, ‘Maine 04358; 445-2496
Austin, Ralph, South China, ‘Maine 04358; "445-2496
Averill, Dorothy J., 14 Beacon St. , Amesbury, Mass. 01913
Babbitt, Thelma, Hancock, N.H. 03449; 525-3729
Baechler, Henry, 40 Farmstead Lane, Glastonbury, Ct. 06033; 633-5493
Baechler, Marjorie, 40 Farmstead Lane, Glastonbury, Ct. 06033; 633-5493
Bailey, Eleanor C., RFD 1, Winthrop, Maine 04364; 395-4724
Bailey, Moses, 160 N. Main St., West Hartford, Conn. 06107; 523-8274
Bailey, Patricia, 59 Elizabeth St., Hartford, Conn. 06105; 232-0309
Bailey, Raleigh, 55 Elizabeth St., ’ Hartford, Conn. 06105; 232-0309
Ballard, Elizabeth F., RFD, Beaver Meadow as Norwich, Vt. 05055; 649-1262
Barlow, John, 38 Holden Wood Rd., Concord, Mass. 01742; 362-9299
Barrett, Leslie, RFD 1, Box 294, Lake Wales, Fl. 33853
Bassett, Thomas, 179 N. Prospect St. , Burlington, Vt. 05401; 862- 8449
Beacon Hill Friends House, 6 Chestnut St.,, Boston, Mass. 02108; 227-9118
Beal, George, 152 Curtis St., Somerville, Mass. 02144; 625-0020
Beal, Kenneth, 303 Preble St., : Portland, Maine 04106
Bean, John, 14 Hilltop Rd., N. Dartmouth, Mass. 02747; 996-6095
Bean, Wallen L., 14 Hilltop rodaaN: Dartouth, Mass. 02747: 996-6095
Behre, Arnold, ° 2930 Old Connecticut Path, Wayland, "Mass. (01778; 358-4249
Bentley, Peter, 4 Cat Rock Rd., Cos Cob, Conn. 06807
Berg, David, Sheepscott, Maine 04566; 586- 6155
Bickford, Dorothy, Kezar Falls, Maine 04047; 625-3547
Birdsall, William, RDA Richmond, Vt. 05477
Blair, Mary EK. Epping, N.H. 03042
Bodine, Thomas R., 0 Haynes St., Hartford, Conn. 06103; 522-1772
Booker, Harold E., RFD Di Lisbon Falls, Maine 04252; 353-4406
Booker, Jennie, RFD ue Lisbon Falls, Maine 04252; 353-4406
Booth, Donald, Canterbury, INGE: 03224: 783-4743
Booth, Lois, Canterbury, N.H. 03224; 783-4743
Booth, Lucy A., 142 N. Summer St., Adams, Mass. 01220
Booth, Nancy, RFD 1, Newcastle, Maine 04553: 063-3464
Bower, Phoebe, 8 Pine St., Concord, N.H. 03301; 228-8473
Brandt, Wilmer, Marshfield, Vib 05658
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Briggs, Marguerite, 2087 E. Main Rd., Portsmouth, R.1I. 02871
Brill, Helen, 21 Grant Hill Rd., Bloomfield, Conn. 06002; 242-5152 Brill, Robert, 21 Grant Hill Rd., Bloomfield, Conn. 06002; 242-5152 Brooks, Russell D., Swamp Rd., Whately, Mass. 01093; 665-3058 Brown, Elmer H., 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge, Mass. 02138; 876-6883 Brown, James P., Box 447, Little Compton, R.I. 02837; 635-2228 Brown, Lois, 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge, Mass. 02138; 868-0465 Brown, Miriam E., 727 Panmure Rd., Haverford, Pa. 19041; 525-4223 Brown, Thomas L., RFD 2, Winsted, Conn. 06098; 379-1271
Browne, Gordon M., Jr., Box 585, Cotuit, Mass. 02635; 428-6200 Bruce, Maggie, 8 Riverview Road, Durham, N.H. 03824; 868-2321 Burdg, Thelma, Box 174, Concord, N.H. 03301; 224-0648
Burgess, Helen, 94 Congdon St., Providence, R.I. 02906; 421-6463 Burgess, Jane C., 52 Walnut St., Needham, Mass. 02192; 444-5836 Burgess, John M., 52 Walnut St., Needham, Mass, 02192; 444-5836 Burgess, Robert, 117 Maple Rd., Warren, R.I. 02885; 245-5522 Burgess, Rutn, 117 Maple Rd., Warren, R.I. 02885; 245-5522
Burgess, Samuel B., 52 Walnut St., Needham, Mass. 02192; 444-5836 Burnham, Harold, 7 College Ave., Gorham, Maine 04038; 839-3288
Cambridge Friends School, 5 Cadbury Rd., Cambridge, Mass. 02140; 351-3880
Carpenter, Florence Y., 36 Sunshine Drive, Hartford, Conn. 06106
Carter, Michael, RFD 3, Freeport, 04032; 865-3360
Cartland, Marian, 54 Farnham St., Portland, Maine 04103; 797-6136
Case, Mary Ann, 669 Horseneck Rd., S. Dartmouth, Mass. 02748
Cates, Benjamin, East Vassalboro, Maine 04935; 923-3711
Cates, Edna, East Vassalboro, Maine 04935; 923-3711
Cates, George, East Vassalboro, Maine 04935; 923-3412
Cates, Laura, East Vassalboro, Maine 04935; 923-3401
Cates, Margaret A., 30 Depot St., Westford, Mass. 01886; 692-6525
Cates, Paul, East Vassalboro, Maine 04935; 923-3078
Cates, Robert, 212 S. Geneva St., Ithaca, N.Y. 14850; 277-0354
Cates, William, East Vassalboro, Maine 04935
Chapin, Stuart, RFD 3, Wiscasset, Maine 04578; 443-2100
Chambers, Susan, Chambers Rd., Hanover, N.H. 03755; 643-4052
China Camp, South China, Maine 04358; 445-2361 |
Chu, Bette, 720 Williams St., New London, Conn. 06320; 442-7947
Chu, Paula, 720 Williams St., New London, Conn. 06320; 442-7947
er David 330) Market Hill Rd. RD 3, Amherst, Mass. 01002; 253-7530
Clarke, Lester, South Lee, Mass. 01260
Colman, Elizabeth, 13 South St., Middlebury, Vt. 05753
Colman, Richard, 13 South St., Middlebury, Vt. 05753
Comfort, Mary Connie, Main St., Higganum, Conn. 06441; 345-2802
Condon, Robert, Main St., N. Bennington, Vt. 05257
Constantineau, Jean, 12 Canterbury St., Lawrence, Mass. 01841; 683-0887
Constantineau, Norman, 12 Canterbury St., Lawrence, Mass. 01841; 683-0887
Cook, Jane E., RFD, Camden, Maine 04848; 236-3064
Cook, Ralph, RFD, Camden, Maine 04843; 236-3064
Cool, Robert N., 217 Pleasant St., Providence, R.I. 02906; 331-4610
Cornell, Russell, 530 Smith Neck Rd., S. Dartmouth, Mass. 02748; 996-8048
Corthell, Lucille, 34 Pacific St., Lynn, Mass. 01902; 592-8824
Corwin, George, 16 Ludlow Manor, East Norwalk, Conn. 06855
Crowe, Frances, 3 Langworthy Rd., Northampton, Mass. 01060; 584-8975
Curtis, David L., RFD 6, Canterbury, N.H. 03224; 783-6386
deBurlo, C. Russell, 87 Rutledge Rd., Belmont, Mass. 02178; 489-1633 Donovan, Emily, 95 Handy Rd., Hamden, Conn. 06518; 288-2359 Donovan, Martha, 95 Handy Rd., Hamden, Conn. 06518; 288-2359
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Donovan, Theodore, 95 Handy Rd., Hamden, Conn. 06518; 288-2359 Douglas, Bernice, 22 Belmont St., Brunswick, Maine 04011; 729-3003 Douglas, David, Box 225, Pocasset, Mass. 02559; 563-6678
Douglas, Margaret, Box 225, Pocasset, Mass. 02559; 563-6678 Duplisea, Eric, 12 Kennebec Pl., Bangor, Maine 04401; 942-7255
Hister, Allan W., 8 Cottage St., Wellesley, Mass. 02181; 235-8293
Hister, David, 8 Cottage St., Wellesley, Mass. 02181; 235-8293
Erickson, Karl H., 345 Pine Hill Rd., Westport, Mass. 02790; 636-4680
Ewen, Bessie, RFD 1, Pound Hill Rd., Woonsocket, R.I. 02895; 769-7497
Fager, Charles, 131 Summer St., Somerville, Mass. 02143
Fairbanks, Benson, 24 Borden Rd., Scituate, Mass. 02066; 545-1248
Fink, Arthur, 8 Mellen St., Cambridge, Mass. 02138
Fisher, Melita B., 27 Warren Ave., Woonsocket, R.I. 02895; 766-2085
Fitzgerald, Iona S., Meadow Brook Lane, Harwichport, Mass. 02646; 432-9545
Flemming, Donald, 17 Gardner St., Keene, N.H. 03431; 352-8205
Foster, Hazel C., Pond Rd., Manchester, Maine 04351; 622-7018
Foster, Millicent S., 750 Stony Lane, N. Kingstown, R.I. 02852; 294-9136
Foster, Thyra Jane, 1301 Centreville Rd., Warwick, R.I. 02886; 821-5479
Foster, William, 750 Stony Lane, N. Kingstown, R.I. 02852; 294-9136
Fowke, Donald H., Valley St., Pembroke, Mass. 02359; 293-2656
Franz, Will, 937 Main Rd., Westport, Mass. 02790; 636-4963
Frazer, Grant, Vermont Academy, Saxtons River, Vt. 05154; 869-2873
Frazer, Oscar, Marlboro, N.H. 03455
Friends Book Store, 302 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19106
Friends Comm. on Nat’l Legislation, 245 Second St., N.E., Washing- ton, D.C. 20002; 202-547-4343
Friends Council on Education, 1515 Cherry St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19102; 563-2752
ca ees ee Conference, 1520 Race St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19102; 567-1965
pens Cee, Meeting, 101 Quaker Hill Drive, Richmond, Ind. 47374;
2-75 Friends World Committee, 152-A N. 15th St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19102
Gardescu, Paul, 135 Glezen Lane, Wayland, Mass. 01778; 358-2669
Gates, Donald E., 39 Landis Dr., E. Greenwich, R.I. 02818; 884-2263
rece nae, W., 37 Elmgrove Ave., Providence, R.I. 02906;
Gifford, Helen T., 19 Boylston Ave., Providence, R.I. 02906
Gifford, Seth II, 24 Elton St., Providence, R.I. 02906; 351-4567
Gilman, Virginia, South Windham, Maine 04082
Gilson, Elizabeth, Box 48, Danville, Vt. 05828; 684-2261
Goodwin, Marian, 267 State Rd., N. Dartmouth, Mass. 02747; 993-3237
Gordon, Calvin, 21 Farewell St., Newport, R.I. 02840
Gordon, Martha, 9 Summit Rd., Wellesley, Mass. 02181; 235-5213
Gove, Richard S., 370 Nahant Rd., Nahant, Mass. 01908; 581-0259
SoS tea terre rg 643 Horseneck Rd., S. Dartmouth, Mass. 02748;
ee eas 15 Ten Acre Lane, West Hartford, Ct. 06107;
Greene, Ralph D., Inner City Ministries, 155 Pine St., Bangor, Maine 04401; 947-6501
Gregory, Mary, Chapman Rd., Keene, N.H. 03431
ese a ohn, NEFH, Turkey Hill Lane, Hingham, Mass. 02043;
Grossman, Walter, 97 Waverly St., Belmont, Mass. 02178; 484-6697
Grunko, Michael, 9 Acadia Pk., Somerville, Mass. 02143; 666-1997
Gunn, Ingrid, 4A Maplewood Apts., Storrs, Conn. 06268; 429-0939
Haddad, Barbara, 295 Wayland Ave., Providence, R.I. 02906; 861-9291 Haddad, Samir, 295 Wayland Ave., Providence, R.I. 02906; 861-9291
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Ham, Rudman J., Lookout Farm, 89 Pleasant St., S. Natick, Mass. 01760; 653-3261
Hancock, Marjorie, Amherst Rd., Leverett, Mass. 01054; 549-3529
Hancock, Thomas, Amherst Rd., Leverett, Mass. 01054; 549-3529
Hardiman, John V., 62 Reservoir Rd., Newington, Conn. 06111; 521-3553
Harrison, Agnes W., South Rd., Holden, Mass. 01520; 829-2246
Harrison, Gregory, 250 Lloyd Ave., Providence, R.I. 02906; 831-7350
Hartnett, William C., 26 Sherman St., Newport, R.I. 02840
Haslem, Lillian, East Vassalboro, Maine 04935
Hathaway, Elizabeth, 53 Linbrook Rd., West Hartford, Conn. 06107; 236-0457
Hathaway, eel, 53 Linbrook Rd., West Hartford, Conn. 06107; 236-045
Havens, Joseph, 586 West St., RD 1, Amherst, Mass. 01002; 253-6384
Hibbs, Gregg, Box 55, West Falmouth, Mass. 02574; 548-6252
Hibbs, Helen, Box 55, West Falmouth, Mass. 02574; 548-6252
Hill, Shirley, 17 Arnold Place, New Bedford, Mass. 02740; 997-9596
Hillegass, Kathy, 14 Bradford St., Needham, Mass. 02192; 444-6093
Hillegass, Robert, 14 Bradford St., Needham, Mass. 02192; 444-6093
Saas, Robert, 121 Holden Wood Rd., Concord, Mass. 01742;
9-642
Hinshaw, Dorothy, 44 Oakcrest Rd., Needham, Mass. 02192; 449-0133
Hinshaw, Edwin E., 44 Oakcrest Rd., Needham, Mass. 02192; 449-0133
Hoag, Garrett S., 1 Waterhouse St., Apt. 31, Cambridge, Mass. 02138
Hoge, Ruth, 5 Rice Spring Lane, Wayland, Mass. 01778; 358-2570
Holden, David, 61 Silver St., S. Hadley, Mass. 01075; 533-9849
Holmes, Andrew C., Oak Grove School, Vassalboro, Maine 04989; 872-6671
Holsman, Wayne, Main St., Bolton, Mass. 01740; 779-6401
Holzer, Christel, Windmill Hill, Putney, Vt. 05346
Ce nae? 34 Benedict Terrace, Longmeadow, Mass. 01106; 567-0490
Houghton, Eloise, 152 Chestnut St., W. Newton, Mass. 02165; 244-6060
eee Proctor W., 152 Chestnut St., W. Newton, Mass. 02165;
-6060
Howe, i Warren, Jr., 260 Cobble Hill Rd., Warwick, R.I. 02886; 884-7225
Howland, Ruth, 874 Main Rd., Westport, Mass. 02790; 636-2298
Hulley, Benjamin, 15 Columbus Ave., Hyannis, Mass. 02601; 775-3689
Humes, Anne, 17 Lincoln Ave., Millbury, Mass. 01827
Hussey, Marion O., Fairfield Dr., Kennebunkport, Me. 04046; 967-4922
Hutchinson, George R., 21 Everett Ave., S. Portland, Maine 04106; 799-2895
Jacob, Alfred B., Diana’s Pool Rd., Chaplin, Conn. 06235; 455-9714
Jarvis, William, Jarvis Hill, Claremont, N.H. 03743
Jessell, Marion M., 32 Litchfield Rd., Watertown, Conn. 06795; 274-3668
Johnson, Curtis, RD, Haydenville, Mass. 01039; 665-2937
Jones, Anna Harvey, South Pomfret, Vt. 05067; 457-2777
Jones, Elizabeth L., 7 Lisbon St., Worcester, Mass. 01603; 756-0276
Jones, George, Jr., 411 Mulberry St., St. Peter, Minnesota 56082
Jones, J. Barclay, South Pomfret, Vt. 05067; 457-2777
Jones, Jessie, 728 Commonwealth Ave., Apt. 19, Boston, Mass. 02215; 267-5452
Jones, Marion E., South China, Maine 04358; 445-2976
Jones, Mary Elizabeth, 37 Pond Rd., Wilton, Conn. 06847; 762-9876
Jonitis, Peter P., 217 E. Belmar St., Lakeland, Fl. 33803
Jose, William M., 194 New Meadow Rd., Barrington, RI. 02806; 245-7552
Kaufhold, Allison, RD, Turners Falls, Mass. 01376; 863-9425 Kaynor, Elizabeth, RFD, Roosevelt St., Hadley, Mass. 01035; 253-5310
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Kellam, John R., 19 Firglade Ave., Providence, R.I. 02906; 351-5671
Kellam, Ruth A., 19 Firglade Ave., Providence, R.I. 02906; 351-5671
Kidder, George, 2 Miles Ave., Middletown, Conn. 06457; 347-5592
Kirkaldy, Peter, 793 Main Rd., Westport, Mass. 02790; 636-2811
Kirkaldy, Stewart, 793 Main Rd., Westport, Mass. 02790; 636 2811
Klein, Bessie M., 11 Weymouth St., Fitchburg, Mass. 01420
Klein, Norman, 11 Weymouth St., Fitchburg, Mass. 01420
Kolp, Alan, 303 Holden Green, Cambridge, Mass. 02138; 354-7457
Kuhn, Brenda, Cape Neddick Park, Cape Neddick, Maine 03902; 363-4139
Landstrom, Norman, 95 Warren St., Needham, Mass. 02192; 444-9212 Lawrence, Gertrude, 85 Kirtland St., West Lynn, Mass. 01905; 598-3244 Lawrence, Herman, 85 Kirtland st: West Lynn, Mass. 01905; 598-3244 Lawrence, Marjorie L., North Ferrisburg, Vt. 05473
Leonard, Dorothea fie Box 278, Goldrod, Fl. 32733
Leonard, Elwood E., Jr., 194 Arlington Ave., Providence, R.I. 02906 Leppman, John A., 34 Beacon St., S. Burlington, Vt. 05401; 862-2485 Leslie, Shirley, Tolend Rd., Dover, N.H. 03820; 742-4151
Lincoln School, 301 Butler Ave., Providence, R.I. 02906; 331-9696 Little, George, 1 East Lane, Apt. E, Bloomfield, Conn. 06002
Luder, Grace, 112 Wetherbee Rd., Waltham, Mass. 02154; 894-2380 Ludman, Jane H., Piermont, N.H. 03779; 764-2458
Lyon, Patricia, Taylor Rd., Stow, Mass. 01775; 897-4668
Lyon, Robert, Taylor Rd., Stow, Mass. 01775; 897-4668
MacAffee, Ellsworth B., 291 Sconticut Neck Rd., Fairhaven, Mass. 02719; 996-2354
Macy, Howard, 601 Smith Neck Rd., S. Dartmouth, Mass. 02748; 993-0640
Mann, Frances, Christian St., Norwich, Vt. 05055; 649-1522
Mangelsdorf, Mary, 110 Cornell Ave., ‘Swarthmore, Pa. 19081; 543-4504
Mangelsdorf, Paul C., 110 Cornell Ave., Swarthmore, Pa. 19081; 543-4504
Marstaller, Clarabel H., RFD 3, Freeport, Maine 04032; 865-4201
Marstaller, Louis J., RFD 3, Freeport, Maine 04032; 865-4201
Marstaller, Nancy, RFD 3} Freeport, Maine 04032; 865-4201
Martin, David, 28 Profile Ave., Portsmouth, N.H. 03801; 436-9866
Martocci, Ruth, Prospect Rd., Mattapoisett, Mass. 02739; 758-2001
McAllester, David, 62 Prospect St., Portland, Conn. 06480
McLeod, Donald, Bay View Ave., a Dartmouth, Mass. 02748; 996-8961
McManus, R. Louise, 250 Sippewissett Rd Falmouth, Mass. 02540; 5)
Meader, Helen, Winthrop, Maine 04364; 377-8011
Meeting School, The, Thomas Rd., Rindge, N.H. 03461; 899-3366
Mellor, Ruth H., 189 Hampshire St., Methuen, Mass. 01844; 682-4677
Meshenuk, Archie, 909 Worthy Ave, Windsor, Conn. 06095; 688-9611
Meshenuk, Daria, 6 Gates St; Worcester, Mass. 01610; 757- 4430
Meshenuk, Dorothy, 909 Worthy Ave., Windsor, Conn. 06095; 688-9611
Metcalf, June, Bay View, S. Dartmouth, Mass. 02748
Meyers, Ambrose, Great Rd. Lincoln, R.I1. 02865; 723-2515
Miles, Walter R., 10 Potter Dr,, Old Greenwich, Conn. 06870
Miller, Betsy, 17 Willow pte Concord, Mass. 01742: 369-5398
Miller, Mary, 900 National Rd. West, Richmond, Ind. 47374
Mitchell, Everett, Box 366, RD 2, Plaistow, N.H. 03865
Mitchell. Hobart, RFD 1, Norwich, Conn. 06360; 889-1924
Mitchell, Jean, RFD 15 Norwich, Conn. 06360; 889-1924
Morris, Alice, Orleans Hids; Harwich, Mass. 02645: 432-1131
Moses Brown School, 250 Lloyd Ave., Providence, R.I. 02906; 831-7350
Mott, Peter R., 250 Lloyd Ave., Providence, als 02906; 831-7350
Muench, Elizabeth, 33 Ledgelawn Ave., Lexington, Mass. 02173;
Myers, Harold W., 7 Charles St., Cranston, R.I. 02920; 942-4240
Myers, Mary, 7 Charles obs, Cranston, R.1. 02920; 942-4240
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Neece, Alice, 8 Puritan Dr., Bloomfield, Conn. 06002
Nelson, Jacqueline, 126 Ash St., New Bedford, Mass. 02740; 992-3970 Nepean, Ellsworth, 1030 Pleasant St., Worcester, Mass. 01602; 753-8877 NI a Friends Home, Turkey Hill Lane, Hingham, Mass. 02043; Newman, Daisy, 1 Bayberry Rd., Hamden, Conn. 0%517; 865-4497 Nichols, Adelaide, RFD, Contoocook, N.H. 03229; 746-3587
Nichols, Robert, RFD, Contoocook, N.H. 03229; 746-3587
Nienstadt, Jean, 300 Danbury Rd., New Milford, Conn. 06776
Oak Grove School, Vassalboro, Maine 04989; 872-6674 “L.? y (
Osborne, Henry T., Weare, N.H. 03281; 398-2813 —
Otis, Eva, Oakland, Maine 04963; 465-3857
Owen, Robert E., Oak Grove School, Vassalboro, Maine 04989; 873-3223
Panunzio, Wesley C., 325 Main Rd., Westport, Mass. 02790; 636-8072 Parker, Mary, Box 123, New London, N.H. 03257; 526-6099
Parrish, Lawrence, Dunham Pond Rd., Storrs, Conn. 06268; 429-9035 Paton, Katherine H., Foulkeways, Gwynedd, Pa. 19436
Patt, Herman, N. Brookfield Rd., West Brookfield, Mass. 01585 Paullin, Ellen, 45 Camp Ave., Newington, Conn. 06111; 666-3458 Paullin, Theodore, 45 Camp Ave., Newington, Conn. 05111; 666-3458 Perisho, Corwin, Riverside Dr., West Harwich, Mass. 02671; 432-0465 Perisho, Robert, 47 Bishop St., New Haven, Conn. 06511
Perry, Finley H., Pleasant St., Dover, Mass. 02030; 785-0063
Perry, Henry H., 51 Cliff St., Nahant, Mass. 01908; 581-0010
Perry, Katherine, 631 Angell St., Providence, R.I. 02906; 751-8941 Perry, Rodney, 600 Pine St., Marshfield, Mass. 02050; 837-3904
Perry, Sylvia, Pleasant St., Dover, Mass. 02030; 785-0063
Phillips, Virginia, 16 Farnham St., Portland, Me. 04103; 797-6288 Pickett, Margaret W., 323 Old Post Rd., Fairfield, Conn. 06430
Pierce, Bertha, 521 High Hill Rd., N. Dartmouth, Mass. 02747; 995-8794 Pierrel, Gren O., 326 Lloyd Ave., Providence, R.I. 02906; 331-3594 Plank, John, 7 Holly Lane, Storrs, Conn. 06268; 429-8887
Plumb, Joan L., Millward Rd., Charlton, Mass. 01507; 248-7800 Plumb, Steve, Millward Rd., Charlton, Mass. 01507; 248-7800 Power, Cynthia J., Long Plain Rd., Mattapoisett. Mass. 02739; 759-2984 Pratt, Cornelia, 213 Main St., Freeport, Maine 04032; 865-3395
Price, Caroline, Box 324, RD 3, Esmond, R.I. 02917
Price, J. Russell, Box 324, RD 3, Esmond, R.I. 02917
Quaker Hill Bookstore, 101 Quaker Hill Dr., Richmond, Ind. 47374 Quaker United Nations Program, 345 E. 46th St., New York, N.Y. 10017 Quindsland, Mary E. 212 Main St., Freeport, Maine 04032; 865-4438
Ramsdell, Elvie, 89 Olean St., Worcester, Mass. 01602; 754-8486
Ravndal, Christian, The Meeting School, RFD 1, Rindge, N.H. 03461; 899-3366
Raymond, Thoreau, 305 North St., Bennington, Vt. 05201; 442-5657
Reed, Howard, 9 Holly Lane, Storrs, Conn. 06268; 429-6619
Reed, Mary A., 9 Holly Lane, Storrs, Conn. 06268; 429-6619
Reed, Nancy, 9 Holly Lane, Storrs, Conn. 06268; 429-6619
Reik, Cynthia, 80 Westerly Terrace, Hartford, Conn. 06105; 233-1156
Richardson, Mildred S., RFD 3, Rochester, N.H. 03867; 332-5472
Richardson, Rolfe, RFD 3, Rochester, N.H. 03867; 332-5472
Robbins, Stephen, Box 53, East Vassalboro, Maine 04935
Roberts, Gordon, 325 Main St., Concord, Mass. 01742; 369-3738
Roberts, Irven V., 85 Prescott St., Torrington, Conn. 06790; 482-8398
Roberts, Kirk, 46 High St., Middlebury, Vt. 05753; 388-7190
Roberts, Mildred, 325 Main St., Concord, Mass. 01742; 369-3738
Roberts, W. Glenn, 42 Burke St., Rockville, Conn. 06066
Robinson, Laura, 65 Pine St., Amherst, Mass. 01002; 549-0287
Rosen, Harris, 151 Slater Ave., Providence, R.I. 02906
Russell, Mabel, RFD 2, Lisbon Falls, Maine 04252; 353-4535
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St. John, Constance, Box 244, Putney, Vt. 05346; 387-4292
St. John, George, 21 Fairhope Rd., Weston, Mass. 02193; 893-4923
Sangrey, Abram, 25 Charles St., Lexington, Mass. 02173; 861-8018
Sangrey, Dorothy, 25 Charles St., Lexington, Mass. 02173; 861-8018
Sawyer, Frederick M., Mount Hygeia Rd., RD 1, Foster, Rel 02825: 647-5917
Schaffner, Mary, 301 Butler Ave., Providence, R.I. 02906; 331-9696
Schmid, Frances, Cotuit, Mass. 02635; 428-6265 —
Schmidt, Eberhard, Cross Pt. Rd., N. Edgecomb, Maine 04556; 882-7107
Schmidt, Loraine, Cross Pt. Rd., N. Edgecomb, Maine 04556; 882-7107
Selleck, George A., 17 Prospect St., Nantucket, Mass. 02554; 228-9265
Sisson, Margaret G., 117 Everett Ave., Providence, R.I. 02906
Slivinski, Lydia S., Walton Way, Farmington, Conn. 06032; 677-7150
Smith, Caleb A., 374 Hawthorn St., New Bedford, Mass. 02740; 993-7387
Smith, Jeannette, 374 Hawthorn St., New Bedford, Mass. 02740; 993-7387
Smith, Marion, Shaftsbury, Vt. 05262; 375-6985
Smith, Newlin R., 126 North St., Medford, Mass. 02155; 396-7401
Smith, William Wharton, 9200 Stenton Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. 19118
Spaulding, Marion I., Red Gables, Tamworth, N.H. 03886; 323-7369
Spinney, David, 8 Cherry St., Somerville, Mass. 02144; 623-2147
Steinberger, Clay, P.O. Box 441, Storrs, Conn. 06268; 429-4459
Steinberger, Doris, P.O. Box 441, Storrs, Conn. 06268; 429-4459
Stern, Katherine, 875 Smith Neck Rd., S. Dartmouth, Mass. 02748; 994-9829
Stern, T. Noel, 875 Smith Neck Rd., S. Dartmouth, Mass. 02748; 94-9829
Stettenheim, Peter, Box 79, Plainfield, N.H. 03781; 675-5915
Stevens, Carl, Hinckley, Maine 04944; 453-6812
Stevens, Henry B., 3