Introduction: "Let Your Life Speak"

"Let your life speak" has been the watchword for Quakers, particularly in the Western United States. For this reason, it seems appropriate to collect the stories of Western Friends, living and deceased, and publish them here on the Internet. This listing is by no means a complete, of course. It will be updated on a monthly basis. Additional biographies are always welcome.

The purpose of publishing this information on the Internet is to make this work-in-progress available and to encourage others to contribute. Over the next few years, we hope to have a fairly comprehensive listing as more and more Friends contribute their entries to this "neverending story."

The purpose of this list is 1) to help those seeking biographical information for genealogies and historical research 2) to inspire those seeking to learn from the lives of faithful Friends, and 3) to provide information about living Friends for those interested in networking, etc.

Information about deceased Friends is generally drawn from memorial minutes. Please feel free to send additional information, articles, etc. that can help to "round out" a portrait of a Friend. Even providing the date when a certain Friend died could help save the editor considerable time and trouble in locating an obituary.

Living Friends who are (or should be) on this list are asked to contribute short biographies, such as the one provided by Lois Barton. Please feel free to suggest the names of other Friends who should be listed, or to contribute information about yourself (even if you are not on this list).

The editor hopes to publish these biographies in photocopied serial form over the next few years. For the benefit of scholars and the curious, the complete text will be kept on disk and available on the Internet with the addition of new names and information as seems appropriate.

Abbott, Marge

Anderson, Al

Anderson, Kay

Autenrieth, Eldon. Born in Big Spring, Missouri, December 3, 1893. He spent his childhood and early adult life in Missouri. After World War I he migrated to Iowa where he met and married Gertrude Tow. They made their home on the farm that had belonged to Gertrude’s grandparents. They became a vital part of the small rural Friends community there, raising four children.

In 1943 Elden and Gertrude retired from farming and moved to Eugene, Oregon. Elden’s earlier years of experience with hard work and his business acumen that had made him a successful farmer made him a valuable asset, whether it was providing encouragement for the conscientious objectors in nearby Civilian Public Service Camps during World War IL or, later, work on the Service Committee’s Executive Board or helping the Meeting acquire and maintain the property on which the meeting house was built.

Elden spoke very little, but when he did Friends listened, because what he had to say was usually both wise and important.

Since 1971 Elden lived at Friends View Manor in Newberg, Oregon, where he was able to continue his interest in gardening, as well as enjoy the friendship of other residents. Since 1982 he had been cared for in the health center of that facility. He died there May 20,1993.

He leaves Horace and Mary Autenrieth of Paullina, Iowa; Emily Lewis of Maupin, Oregon; Barbara and Bent Thygesen of Newberg, Oregon; Norma Autenrieth of Wallingford, Pennsylvania; fifteen grandchildren; and twelve great-grandchildren, plus many others whose lives he touched.

Baker, Hermione. Born November 2, 1917, at Onawa, Iowa, and died February 6, 1992, at Yucca Valley, California. With her passing Friends share a deep sense of loss. Her spirit will shine for all of us who loved her, who cherished her counsel and shared in her indomitable joy of living. We have been fortunate in her friendship; we could hardly forget her example of Quaker precepts. Her way of treating a problem always held more of Hermione than one might assume to be present—her deep faith in the guidance of the Light; her calm and loving concern for the persons involved; and her firm, incisive mind.

Committees in her care were more often uplifting than exhausting. Honesty, integrity, simplicity, and joyful faith were her ministry. We all have wonderful memories of time spent with Hermione. The casual mention of a plant or a bird could lead to an impromptu field trip. Walking was a joyful thing for her, followed by the comfort of her rocking chair and a cup of tea. She had a purity of heart which seemed to bear burdens easily. The strength to meet these burdens came from a visible trust in the Divine Mind. Her life was not without pain or sorrow, and yet the joy was always evident. She did what needed doing with sincerity and love.

Her guidance of teachers in the Long Beach Unified School District helped develop innovative curricula for all children and characterized her career as an administrator. Hermione encouraged children to find their own strengths, to trust, to develop pride, and to grow in confidence as people. Her love for them was genuine.

Her work with prisoners was no less demanding. Her faith seemed infinite and strong enough to move mountains of human pain. Her trust in God and love for His works extended to the entire universe of creation. The natural world was for her one constant love as an obvious source of enjoyment and devotion. Camping was her way of renewal - a prayer of gratitude for all His works.

She gave many hours to the Meetings to which she belonged - Orange Grove, Long Beach Friends Church, Marloma, Whittier, and Claremont. In the last few years Morongo Basin Worship Group, under the care of Claremont Meeting, was a deep and loving concern. She carried the Clerkship of Pacific Yearly Meeting for a brief time, followed by clerkship of Quarterly Meeting. Her work with the American Friends Service Committee expressed her firm belief in service as worship.

Hermione Baker has given us important gifts to keep. Though we miss her physical presence, she has left us an example of grace and Quaker spirituality by which we can shape our lives.

Barns, Bob

Barton, Lois. A birthright Wilburite Friend born 1918 in Ohio. She graduated from a Quaker boarding school, served on the Peace Committee of Ohio Yearly Meeting, conservative. Was a representative from that meeting to the conference in Richmond, Indiana which established the Friends Committee on National Legislation. In Oregon, she was one of the founders of Eugene Monthly Meeting. Served as assistant clerk of PYM under Francis Dart. Was for two years clerk of NPYM Outreach and Visitation committee. Has served repeatedly as clerk and member of the Worship and ministry committee of Eugene Meeting, as well as representative to the Steering comittee, which she served as recording secretary at one time. She authored a book about Philadelphia Friends work with the Senecas entitled A Quaker Promise Kept, as well as two books of brief biographical sketches and poetry.

Bean, Joel and Hannah. The following is an article about the Beans written by Chuck Fager and published in the May, 1998, issue of Friends Bulletin:

Historical currents combined with their character to make of the Beans perhaps the key figures, indeed the founders, of the modern liberal Quaker ethos. “Beanite Quakerism” is the term coined by Geoffrey Kaiser, a penetrating amateur Quaker historian, to describe the modern liberal branch of the Society, and once their role is clear, the accuracy of the term should be evident. Joel was a New England Friend, and Hannah a Philadelphian, but they left the East for a farm in West Branch, Iowa in the late 1850s. There they settled into a rapidly growing Quietist Quaker community, and within ten years, they had been chosen as clerks of Iowa’s Men’s and Women’s Yearly Meetings, respectively. They also traveled in the ministry, to Hawaii in the west, and east to England, New and Old, where they came to be widely respected as ministers.

So far, so good. Then in the 1870s, revivalism came to Iowa Friends.

The early revivalist Friends insisted that the older, Conservative Quakerism was spiritually asleep, or even comatose, and needed to be shaken up. Many younger Friends agreed: they complained that Quietist worship was dominated either by an idolatry of increasingly empty silence, or by the too-often repetitive and dry preaching of elderly elders.

At first the Beans were sympathetic, despite their basically Quietist preferences. Joel Bean wrote approvingly in 1870 that in the Iowa revival “The Lord’s work is progressing in many localities and deepening in many hearts. A true work of grace was begun, and has been carried forward.”

But on returning home after another long trip to England in the mid-1870s, when revivalism had intensified and incorporated a new call for “sanctification” or “holiness,” the Beans began to have doubts. Still, they stuck with their meeting, and when, in 1877, the bulk of the Quietist Friends seceded to form a rival Iowa Conservative Yearly Meeting, the Beans declined to join it.

They stayed because they strongly disliked separations. But as holiness revivalism advanced, they came to dislike it even more, both in terms of doctrine and practice.

Doctrinally, the revivalists vehemently rejected the Quaker notion of a universal, saving Inner Light, declaring that the Spirit dwelt only in those Christians who had been properly saved and sanctified.

They were also relentless in their demands for ever more emotional worship, programmed services, paid pastors, and the necessity for a “second blessing”experience after conversion, which they insisted would completely cleanse the soul of any sinfulness and fill it with permanent, instant, total holiness.

Such “sanctification” and its doctrinal baggage brought exaltation to many individuals, but left division in its wake wherever it appeared among Friends. For awhile the Beans hoped to moderate the revivalist impact on their beloved yearly meeting, or at least their own West Branch meeting.

But no way. The revivalists constituted a new leadership cadre, they were on a roll, and they were determined to take over and remake the yearly meeting in their image. And so they did, even reviving Bean’s home meeting in West Branch in 1880. David Updegraff, a leading revivalist, declared the process a complete success; but it left the meeting deeply divided and demoralized.

The Beans were now isolated in their own home town, and felt that the revivals had turned Iowa Quakerism into something alien. After considerable hesitation, Joel Bean poured out his concerns on paper and sent them to a journal, the “British Friend,” which published them under the title, “The Issue,” early in 1881.

In “The Issue” Bean deplored the outcome of the revivals, which he saw as turning Iowa Quakerism entirely away from the essentials of traditional Quakerism. In another article, “The Light Within,” he defended Friends’ traditional Christian universalist understanding of this idea.

“The Issue” was something of a manifesto, and became a rallying point for the growing number of Quaker opponents of revivalism. It was widely reprinted on both sides of the Atlantic. Quietist Friends acclaimed it; but to the new Iowa holiness leaders, it was treachery pure and simple. And they weren’t about to put up with that.

The axe fell at Iowa’s 1881 yearly meeting sessions. Bean and “The Issue” were bitterly denounced, and revivalism was fully endorsed. Only an eloquent plea by Hannah Bean stopped a move to censure her husband.

The Beans left the session in shock, their influence in the body clearly at an end. They could feel that the momentum of the revival was likely to end in further separations, and even now they drew back from this prospect. “We need change and rest,” Joel wrote to a friend in Indiana. And within a year, the Beans had sold their farm and headed for California.

Not long after they left, their West Branch meeting broke apart.

They settled in San Jose, where they organized a new meeting, under the care of their old Quarter in Iowa, and worshipped in their accustomed Quietist fashion.

This ought to be the end of the story. But the revivalist authorities would not leave them in peace.

They redrew the yearly meeting borders and placed the Beans’ new meeting in a different, much-revived quarter. Then they sent two revivalists to see that the new meeting was properly sanctified. This precipitated a split in the small group; Joel Bean and his supporters then built a new meetinghouse for the Quietist remnant, and applied for recognition as the College Park Meeting.

But Iowa’s new ruler’s scented heresy. They sent Bean’s group a list of six questions, to which they demanded yes or no answers. Among the questions were:

“Second—Do you unite with the Declaration of Faith in the revised Book of Discipline of...[Iowa] Yearly Meeting?”

“Fourth—We ask in particular, Do you believe in the statement...[in the new Iowa] Book of Discipline, that the Holy Spirit dwells only in the righteous?”

Most of the Bean group’s answers were deemed evasive, but the answer to the fourth question was a red flag. It was:

“We have never heard the expression used in teaching by any of our members that the Holy Spirit ‘dwells’ in the unrighteous. That the light and Spirit of Christ is in all men is believed and taught.”

Iowa’s response to such flagrant unsoundness was to lay the meeting down. But since the Beans had built the meetinghouse, the yearly meeting couldn’t stop them from gathering in it, and attendance grew. Reports of the Iowa action drew numerous denunciations from Eastern and British Friends.

The Iowans were not troubled by these effusions from the unsanctified. And in 1892, when it introduced a list of doctrinal questions for all its ministers to answer, the Beans’ answers were judged unsound and the next year they were deposed as ministers.

There was an international outcry against the Iowa action; a letter denouncing their “inquisitorial” proceedings, signed by 400 Friends, was circulated widely as a pamphlet. But the revivalists were secure in their position; and a few years later, the Beans were dropped from membership entirely when the Iowans purged their rolls of “inactive” members.

Following news of this action, the Beans were readmitted to membership by Joel’s home meeting in New Hampshire, and their ministry recognized. More important, though, was what they then did in San Jose.

In 1889 their meeting was reorganized as an independent corporation, the College Park Association of Friends.

Thus the Beans, who despised separation and wanted only to preserve what they considered to be the essential and ancient traditions of Quakerism, perforce became separatists and innovators.

In the long sad history of Quaker schisms, College Park was a novelty: it was not thought of as the nucleus of a new yearly meeting. Rather, its attenders were to retain their membership in whatever yearly meetings they hailed from, if any; College Park was to be a vehicle for joint worship and fellowship, rather than a disciplinary center. The later evolution of the Beans’ religious thought has not yet been traced in detail by scholars, though the Beans, as much as any 20th Century American Friends, deserve a full-fledged biography. Yet it seems evident that they came to feel that where doctrine is concerned, less is more.

This is shown in the College Park Association’s purpose statement, which was a mere three sentences long: “To promote the interest of Christianity and morality and to disseminate religious and moral principles.” To hold property; and “To maintain a meeting for worship of the Society of Friends” in their meetinghouse.

A later statement of its “Discipline” was longer—five whole sentences, a total of 122 words; the section on “Doctrine” stated, in full:

“Friends believe in the continuing reality of the living Christ, available to all seeking souls.”

Other sections specifically declared its worship to be unprogrammed, nonpastoral and open to all, and named an imperative to social witness.

Such sentiments may sound like bromides to today’s liberal Quaker reader, particularly the large majority who are innocent of the historical background. But seen in context, the Discipline’s intentional contrast with the pastoral holiness revivalism of Iowa and its evangelical offspring bodies (such as Friends Church Southwest, which was also begotten by Iowa) is apparent.

San Jose was not exactly on the beaten track of Quakerism at the turn of the century. But the international prestige of the Beans made College Park a magnet for ministers and intellectual Friends from many parts of the world. College Park also proved fortunate in attracting distinguished visitors from nearby Stanford University, including a classics professor, Augustus Murray, and a student named Herbert Hoover.

Thirty years later, when Herbert Hoover became President of the United States, he asked the now retired professor Murray to come to Washington as an informal “chaplain”; Hoover also saw to it that a new meetinghouse was built in Washington, which would be suitable for the chief executive to attend.

By then, the Beans were dead, but the Friends Meeting of Washington was only one of their many spiritual/organizational offspring. Numerous unaffiliated meetings had sprung up in the West, loosely affiliated with College Park. And in other regions, new liberal meetings were being formed, populated mainly by convinced Friends, on a similarly independent or “united” basis.

The character of this movement was shaped in large measure by Joel Bean’s granddaughter, Anna Cox, and her husband, Howard Brinton. Between them the Brintons helped the College Park Association face up to what it now was, a yearly meeting in all but name, becoming Pacific Yearly Meeting in 1947, and the “mother church” of three independent liberal yearly meetings in the western part of the U.S.

The Brintons were similarly influential in the east, when they directed Pendle Hill near Philadelphia from 1938 to 1952. There they were actively involved in the movement to reunite the two branches of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, sundered for over a century, on a doctrinal basis that, in essence, is much like that of College Park.

In these developments--Herbert Hoover at a united meeting in Washington, and the Brintons’ work on yearly meeting construction and reconstruction on both coasts, is seen the breadth of “Beanite” influence among liberal Friends.

We can also see that underlying this stream there is a definite, albeit rarely stated, theological perspective, the elements of which make up much of the ethos of contemporary liberal Quakerism: The universalism of their belief in the Inner Light; finding the measure of authenticity in the practice of worship and witness, rather than adherence to theological formulas or emotional experiences; the insistence on a free ministry, equally available to all; a fiercely congregational polity, with “higher” structures kept to a minimum and restricted to cooperative and consultative functions; and, though it was not part of the College Park Discipline, an emphasis on the magnetic effects of personal example and contact, “letting your life preach,” as the proper basis for congregational growth or “evangelism.”

Each of these elements deserves fuller treatment than they can be given here. Suffice it to say that these emphases did not fall from the sky; nor were they invented by some New Age liberal. Instead, while they speak to the condition of many, we can see how they were forged from the trials and trauma undergone by Joel and Hannah Bean over forty years, as they labored to cope with a revival movement which swept away virtually everything that Quakerism had meant to them, and to many others, for more than two hundred years.

Given their obscurity today, to speak of “Beanite Quakerism” sounds to many liberal Friends like a joke, perhaps a clumsy pun on the vegetarians among us. But to an increasing number who know something of its history, the term is one to be repeated with pride.

And gratitude.

Copyright © 1995 by C. Fager. All rights reserved; fair use OK.

Best, Helen Briggs: a life-long member of the Religious Society of Friends. With her husband Herbert Briggs, she was a founding member of the Penn Valley Meeting in Kansas City and instrumental in the founding of the Oklahoma City Meeting. She was later a member of Coal Creek Meeting in Iowa until transferring to Pima Meeting in Tucson as a sojourning member where she was active until her death.

Graduating from William Penn College in Iowa with a teaching degree and later earning a master’s degree in social work from the University of Oklahoma, she worked in family guidance clinics and mental health centers in Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri. As a professor of social work at the University of Kansas, she developed a teachers’ training course that won regional awards for mental illness prevention programs. In Merriam, Kansas, she established a multi-service center offering a variety of social services including mental health counseling. For a time she was president of the Southern Arizona Mental Health Association. She maintained a lively private counseling practice until her death.

Her husband Herbert Briggs died in 1970. Helen and Jim Best were married under the care of Coal Creek Monthly Meeting in 1981. She leaves behind her beloved companion Jim Best, her son David and his wife Rebecca of Sedalia, Colorado, and her granddaughter Cinaman Azarcon and three great grandchildren.

Always interest in experiencing the light of the spirit wherever she found it, she became active as a spiritual healer in the Johrei Fellowship, a healing community, in Tucson. Helen was a caring, kind, and loving person whose spiritual journey was inspiring to all who knew her. She was a sensitive and intuitive spiritual adviser. She truly did walk cheerfully over the earth answering to that of God in everyone.

Booth, Raymond (So. Cal. AFSC Exec. Sec.

1941-42)

Boulding, Elise

Boulding, Kenneth. Born in 1910 in Liverpool, England, the only son of a plumber, died March 18,1993. He was raised by his parents and his aunts who showered him with affection. They were devout Methodists, his grandfather a circuit preacher. His family and teachers recognized his brilliance early and he made his way to Oxford University. ‘there he became a Quaker because of his commitment to pacifism. He won a Commonwealth Fellowship that brought him to the University of Chicago for two years and he emigrated to the United States in 1937. Kenneth first met Else Biorn Hansen in 1941 at a Quaker Meeting m Syracuse, New York. Kenneth and Elise had four sons and a daughter and sixteen grandchildren.

During his career as an economist Kenneth taught at Edinburgh University, Colgate College, McGill University, Iowa State University, and the University of Michigan, as well as in Japan and Jamaica. In 1967 the Bouldings settled in Boulder where both Kenneth and Elise taught at the University of Colorado, she in sociology and he in economics. After retirement in 1980, he continued as a research associate and project director at the Institute of Behavioral Science. He also enthusiastically became an itinerant professor.

In Kenneth’s academic life he developed new fields, including grants economics, conflict resolution and peace studies, general systems theory, and environmental economics. He wrote almost 40 books and three volumes of poetry and published more than 800 articles. He received 36 honorary degrees, numerous awards and honors, and was nominated for Nobel prizes in economics and peace. His spiritual beliefs had a strong effect on his intellectual development, and his intellect contributed significantly to Quaker thought and practice.

Kenneth Boulding manifested the very best of Quaker ideals. Spontaneously honest, he ceaselessly pushed toward more refined truths and sustained hope even in the darkest of times. He had an unswerving and clear vision of what he wanted to do and that was to make the world a better place. A wild-idea man, he entertained even the smallest concepts with curiosity, and as he tested them they became grist for his genius. Usually working on several things at once, he created poetry and clay architectural models alongside his vigorous intellectual work.

As cancer sapped his energy, his purity of spirit strengthened. Those who visited him left renewed. He greeted visitors with delight and with snippets of Gilbert and Sullivan, joyous descriptions of his life, musings on history or God or nature. His optimism was boundless even to the end. Kenneth’s loving kindness extended outward to all, without judgement or reservations. But we will remember best his humor and his love and gentle guidance which inspired us all.

Brinton, Anna. Founder of Friends Bulletin, educator, and author of numerous books, articles, and pamphlets about Quakerism. Henry Cadbury wrote the following essay about Anna Brinton:

Word that Anna Brinton once spoke at Cape May may epitomize the love, wisdom, energy, and humor that were the warp and woof of her abundant life.

"Happy are those whose later years are not a footnote to life but an interesting last chapter!

"There are two traps which have to be especially avoided in our relationship to our families and Meetings; they are indolence and omniscience. By indolence I mean unwillingness to take our right responsibility. By omniscience I mean the assumption that because we have lived a longtime, our judgment is final.

"Let us try to improve the public conscience by increasing the amount of tenderness, sympathy, and consideration. It is urgent to begin with the young if we hope to replace hardness of heart with tenderness and Christian love."

With the passing of Anna Brinton on October 28, 1969, the Society of Friends lost one of its most colorful and useful personalities. Born in 1887 in California as Anna Shipley Cox, a member of the College Park Association of Friends, she was educated in California except for two years at Westtown School and one year in Rome. She recein,ed her de-rees up through the doctorate at Stanford University and became a college teacher of the classics at Earlham College and Mills College. She married Howard H. Brinton in 1921, and they remained colleagues and Earlham and Mills and after 1936 as directors at Pendle Hill. Four children were born to them.

This scholarly couple has exercised profound influence on the education and outreach, including ecumenical contacts , of Quakerism. They met in 1920 in Germany during the Angol-American relief operations there. During 1931-1932 they were fellows together at Woodbrooke Settlement, England. They shared service in India and China in 1946 and in Japan in 1952-55. For more than thirty years Anna Brinton was involved in countless ways on the board of directors and the staff of the American Friends Service Committee.

Those who came into acquaintance with her at Pendle Hill or elsewhere will have varied and vivid impressions of her personality. Each friend would have a difference reminiscence or emphasis.

I was attracted by her unique manner of speech, her brief but telling allusions to literature and history, and her ever-helpful service to the publications of other Friends, as well as her own careful writings. She combined the easy and friendly counseling to individuals with effective participation in collective Quaker enterprises or communities.

She and Howard Brinton served as foster parents of Pacific Yearly Meeting, which was organized in their home and strengthened by them even after they removed across the continent.

When she came to die, she was, she said, "enthusiastic about death." She also had been enthusiastic about life." (Friends Journal, Dec. 15, 1969.)

Frances McAllister (Flagstaff Meeting) provided the following anecdote about Anna Brinton:

It was in the spring of 1949 that I was at Pendle Hill on retreat with the Friends Council on Education. My six-year-old, in morning worship on a sunny lawn, jumped down and hopped around in the circle following a butterfly. When the butterfly moved outside the circle, so did young John. My motherly concern included anxiety. I joined him whispering lest the worshippers be distracted. We talked to each other—whispering until the worship ended with hand shakes. Anna Brinton joined us saying, "Frances McAllister, dost thee not know that pursuit of butterflies may be as good as prayer?" And she escorted us to another part of the garden with a rich variety of species—both blossoms and butterflies.

Brinton, Howard

Bross, Helen

Broz, Carmen

Bruner, Catherine (PYM clerk, 1957-60)

Campbell, Mary Christine , died June 8, 1985, in Flagstaff, Arizona, where she had resided since 1953. She was born February 13, 1909, at Richmond Hill, Long Island, New York, to Mary Kline Boltz and Herbert F. Campbell. She was brought up to ignore the handicap of having only one arm, and to concentrate on utilizing her abilities. Her childhood was spent in Philadelphia, and she obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and the Master of Arts degree from Columbia University. Her early career was in teaching English, the language and literature she loved, in Philadelphia high schools. After her retirement from the public schools at the time of enforced loyalty oaths in Pennsylvania, she taught in Vietnam when it was still under French occupation.

Her career in Flagstaff included working at the Museum of Northern Arizona where she was attracted by its strong programs in Hopi and Navajo arts and crafts, and establishing a bookstore near the Northern Arizona University campus. She later worked at the University’s Institute for Human Development. There she taught and counseled students who had suffered culture shock in the Korean war, many of whom were from the Indian reservations.

In 1945 she became a member of the Norristown, PA Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, where she taught in the First Day school. She was a delegate to the Oxford Conference of Friends held in London in 1952, an experience with Friends from all over the world which influenced the rest of her life.

In her early years in Flagstaff she formed a Quaker worship group which met in her home, and she also attended the Flagstaff Unitarian Fellowship. When the Flagstaff Friends Meeting was established in 1968, she transferred her membership to it, and held many positions of responsibility, including that of clerk. She interpreted Quaker principles to the community and represented the Friends Meeting in the Flagstaff Ministerial Association. She was also a founding member of Intermountain Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends and, until her death, attended all of its annual meetings at Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, New Mexico. In 1978 the Flagstaff Friends Meeting minuted Mary Campbell as a recorded minister in recognition of her spiritual leadership, her valued vocal ministry, and her Biblical scholarship. She realized a long-held dream in the fall of 1984 when she spent a term at Pendle Hill, a Quaker research and study center in Wallingford, Pennsylvania.

The wide range of Mary’s friendships was remarkable-she knew no barriers of nationality, color, age, creed or class. Her home attracted students and other young people who came to her for personal counseling and informal criticism of their writings and art work. Her hospitality was extended to all who enjoyed listening to fine music, and the reading and discussion of literary works. Her personal creativity was expressed in her poetry and journals. Although she never married, she had several foster children and grandchildren to whom she was devoted and on whose lives her influence was strong and sustained.

Carroll, Isabel Ripley. Socorro, New Mexico, peace activist, died December 2, 1986, in the Norman, Oklahoma, home of her brother after a valiant fight against cancer.

Isabel, born March 26, 19 10, in New York City, lived in Pelham, New York, for 22 years. She graduated from Wells College, Aurora, New York, and later, in 1960, became the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in American Literature from Harvard.

Isabel served with the American Red Cross in World War II in a mobile surgical hospital just behind the enemy lines in France, Germany and Italy. She married Thomas Carroll in 1950.

Her career included teaching English at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, at Los Alamos as part of the University of New Mexico Extension School and at New Mexico Highlands University at Las Vegas. She retired to Socorro in 1975.

Isabel was a self-described "militant pacifist," a member of the Nuclear Freeze Group in Socorro. She lived in New Mexico about forty years and was an active member of three Friends Meetings-Las Vegas, Santa Fe, and Albuquerque as well as the Socorro Worship Group. She was a strong feminist and a member of the steering committee of the New Mexico Women’s Caucus.

Carsner, Eubanks

Carson, Harold (PYM clerk, 1960-)

Church, Peggy Pond and Fermor Spencer Church. A memorial service for Fermor Spencer Church and Peggy Pond Church was held on November 3, 1986, in the Great Hall of St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Both had been members of Santa Fe Friends Meeting.

Fermor Church, who died in 1975, had been Headmaster at Los Alamos Ranch School, engineer, teacher, father, lover of the earth and environmentalist. In the mid-1950s he was Clerk of Santa Fe Meeting.

Peggy Church, who died on October 24, 1986, at her home in Santa Fe, was a poet, novelist, mother, lover of the earth and environmentalist.

Together they weathered the closing of the Los Alamos Ranch School when it was commandeered by the government for the Manhattan Project in 1942. Later events at Los Alamos became the basis for Peggy’s biographical memoir, The House at Otowi Bridge, published in 196 1. Married for more than fifty years, sustained by wit, nourished by wisdom and buoyed by a sense of exploration, Ferm and Peggy taught their three sons and seven grandchildren to see with clearer eyes, to hear with sharper ears, and to listen to the voices of the land and the spirit.

Upon Fermor’s death, Peggy wrote an epitaph which serves her, too, at this time.

I am thinking this morning of the beauty of the earth as you and I both loved it, wondering how my vision is still half yours-the broken surf of morning over land forms; slant light; rolling thunder at the edge of our summer picnics; the high dancing of sandhill cranes, their cry that echoed like water rippling over smooth stones, over the far expanse of bright air. Within and all around us time flowed, making, unmaking mountains: the crystal essence still glitters in the sand grains of dry rivers. Nothing seems lost-light’s changes, wind-swept silence, the and land reflecting the shape of water. I gather pebbles feeling your quiet presence companion me still in all we loved together.

Church, Ted

Coats, Josephine Lenore: 90, social worker, mother of four boys, peace advocate and member of the Society of Friends, died of natural causes on Oct. 23rd in Santa Fe. She was returning to her home in Gila from a visit to the Midwest where she had attended her grandson’s wedding in the Traverse Bay, Michigan area. She had enjoyed being with her two surviving sons, Jim and Bill, and their wives, Pat and Barbara. While staying in the Chicago area, she had an extended visit with her friend, Judy Jager, four of her grandchildren, and four of her great-grandchildren. Her friend, Mary Riseley, accompanied her on the trip. Memorial services will be held to honor Josephine's life at 1 p.m. Sunday, Nov 19th at the Gila Valley Farm on Box Canyon Road in Cliff. At 1 p.m. Nov. 26th there will be a service at the Japanese American Service Committee office in Chicago, Illinois.

Josephine was the second daughter of four children born to Virginia and Chance Hardy of Marion, Indiana. She was always a positive and an outgoing person who moved with ease among diverse groups of people. Waiting on tables, and participating in modern dance and in athletics was only part of her undergraduate, world-opening experience at the University of Wisconsin. After marrying and having four children, she lived in Gary, Indiana, where she was a founding and active member of the League of Women Voters and was a Girl Scout leader.

Her commitments to New Deal policies and her advocacy for the passage of the Social Security Act led to her first social work job as a welfare case worker. She continued her career in social work at the State Mental Hospital in Westville. While working there, she also earned her master of social work degree from Indiana University.

In Chicago, in her 50s and early 60s, she was able to fully witness her moral and spiritual beliefs. She was a founding member of the North Side Quaker Meeting in Chicago that often met in the living room of her first-floor apartment in Old Town, where she also harbored objectors to the war in Vietnam as they made their way to Canada. Representing the Society of Friends, she traveled to regional, national and international meetings. She made one trip around the world to visit Friends World Committee projects.

Following a heart attack, at the age of 63, she retired from her school social work position and moved to Gila, where old friends from Gary sold her an acre of their newly purchased land above Bear Creek. In her home on the western edge of the Gila National Forest, while making her rounds of southwest New Mexico, she made many friends whose social, cultural and spiritual lives she enhanced. Traveling anywhere with her, one would be introduced to the widest variety of people imaginable. The Quaker worship group she began at her home formed the foundation for what later became the local Gila Friends Monthly Meeting.

Her charity was expressed not only by her generous financial contributions to individuals and causes, but also through her gifts of time and personal commitment. Her passions for travel, physical activity, conversation, reading, Bible study, singing, painting and silent Quaker meetings continued to have their full expressions through the remainder of her life. p

Cobin, Martin

Corbett, Jim

Cox, Catherine

Dann, Robert and Lyra

Darling, Benjamin A. Died on April 11, 1970. Was a member of the first Haverford-trained unit of the American Friends Service Committee and was sent to Europe during the First World War to help hospitals aid rehabilitation work. He attended Pacific College (now George Fox College) in Newberg, Oregon, settled in Seattle, and was one of the organizers of the Friends Conference Ground at Quaker Friends Center near the University of Washington. He was a charter member of University Friends Meeting and helped build the first meetinghouse. He was clerk of Ministry and Counsel for many years and helped to find a new location when the Meeting was forced to move. He was the second clerk of Pacific Yearly Meeting. He loved gardening and he loved to read the Bible and writings of Friends.

Dart, Martha

Dart, Alice

Dart, Eleanor

Dart, Helen

Dart, Francis Elliot, member of the Eugene Monthly Meeting, died of cancer at his home in Eugene on June 21, 1977. Born in Southern Rhodesia of Congregational missionary parents in 1914, Francis, with his wife Alice, joined the Society of Friends at Ithaca, N.Y. where he earned his Ph. D. in solid state physics at Cornell. He became a University of Oregon faculty member in 1949. There he pioneered in science courses for non-science majors and served a term as director of the Honors College. Sent to Nepal by the U of 0 in 1957 to help establish the science courses for the planned State University, Francis developed an interest in teaching science as a second culture to children in the non-Western world. This led to research in Nepal and New Guinea, and through language translations his ideas on this technique are affecting science curricula in many parts of the world.

Francis helped train Peace Corps groups in this approach to teaching, and served as an advisor to returning Peace Corps volunteers wanting to resume their studies.

After WWII Francis spent two years in Germany as a volunteer relief worker with AFSC. He was one of ten Quakers who were among the first to cross the wall into East Germany seeking rapprochement between East and West. He participated in several and directed one Seminar for Diplomats through which Quakers offered an opportunity to junior diplomats of many countries to discuss diplomatic affairs "off the record" in an informal setting. He was ‘ for several years on the National Board of AFSC as well as holding northwest regional AFSC posts.

Francis was one of the founders of the Eugene Friends Meeting. He served as clerk of both Pacific and North Pacific Yearly Meetings. He is survived by his wife, Alice, children Helen, Eleanor and Paul, and grandson Alan.

Eugene Friends held a memorial Meeting for Worship on June 26, wherein many associates from the University as well as fellow members of the Society of Friends spoke movingly of Fran’s talent for reconciliation and clarity, his ability to fire the minds of his students, and his deep enjoyment of the natural world around him.

Drath, Phillip, born June 15, 1912, in Reedley, California, and died on October 27, 1983, at Marin General Hospital following a heart attack

Phil graduated from Fresno State College with a major in education and strong interests in history and coaching athletics. He played college football and the violin in a symphony orchestra. He met Marjorie, a fellow student, when she was working for the American Friends Service Committee, and he often said she was the first activist in the family. Their lives together were devoted to education and action for peace and social justice.

A conscientious objector in World War 11, Phil (always with the help of his wife) worked on his family’s ranch in the valley. The war years focused his concern for wrongs done by our country to Japanese American citizens, and he helped see to it that his friends and neighbors were welcomed back into his Methodist church and community when they returned from internment camps. Phil was active in many organizations for peace and human rights, and in seeking ways to end bomb testing by the United States. With friends he built a trimaran, hoping to sail a protest voyage into the atomic test area, but they were prevented from taking this action.

The Draths joined San Francisco Meeting in 1962 as convinced Friends, and with their daughter Marilyn participated wholeheartedly in the life of our religious community. In 1965 our Meeting sent a minute of introduction and support with Phil when he was called to go to Mississippi and serve as supervisor in re-building burned churches there. In 1968 he ran for Congress as a peace candidate, determined, win or lose, to raise the crucial issues of peace and democracy as he saw them. He was a private man who answered all manner of calls to be a very public Friend.

But surely Phillip Drath’s greatest adventure witnessing on behalf of Friends’ testimonies was his participaton as one of six crew members aboard the Phoenix, which carried medical supplies to North Vietnam during the war. Friends were divided in support for this dangerous, illegal mission, but it kindled our hearts and our irnaginations, and Phil said it was worth every bit of it. At a rough time at sea during Easter Week in 1967 he wrote home to his family: "I am trying to do a good thing. I told God I loved hHim and I knew He loved me. I want only strength to do my work."

Phil believed in the Source of his strength, and in our connections to one another. He said: "If you really listen, you can get answers to your needs and the needs of the whole world." But listening often was not easy for him. He was difficult and stubborn and he did not suffer fools gladly. Direct, candid and fearless, he spoke his heart, and acted. Without self-righteousness or solemnity himself, and thoroughly human in his failings, his patience was tested by others. He wanted no one to make a saint out of him. His zest for living was contagious and he drew all sorts of people to him. Their praise made him uneasy.

As a teacher in our Meeting’s First Day School, Phillip was not only an original contemporary Quaker hero to our Young Friends, but he also delighted in learning from them. He loved fun, parties, jokes, and told grand self-deprecating stories about his own shortcomings. He shared his life generously, including us in wonderful sailboat rides, the intense work of political campaigning, and his wrestling with himself over what was right for him to do.

He built boats of all kinds (and invented the "Fresno Class" sailboat), houses, churches, a community building for the Blue Mountain Meditation Center, and he gave freely of his professional advice and labors. A fine sailor, he found freedom and peace for his restless spirit on the open water, learning to cooperate with the rhythms of nature. He loved gardening , animals, the out of doors, using his hands to make sculptures in stone. At the time of his death he had just been named to fill the chair for first violin in the West Marin Symphony Orchestra, an achievement which pleased him mightily.

It helps to remember that on foggy mornings at Inverness he sometimes told Marjorie, "The sun will come out. Just you wait and see." Phil’s trust in the eventual rightness of things encouraged us. His courage made us braver, his laughter gave us perspective and lifted our spirits. He helped us to find our strength to keep on trying.

Durland, Bill and Jeannie

Duveneck, Josephine. Josephine was central to the life of Palo Alto Friends Meeting for a long generation. She joined the Meeting in 1937 and for a total of nine years served as Clerk. She was largely responsible for our meeting house location in one of the few interracial neighborhoods of Palo Alto. Her contributions to Friends’ concerns were manifold and manifest: work with Japanese-Americans interned during World War II and with Native Americas which led to the Indian Program at the American Friends Service Committee and the founding of Intertribal Friendship House in Oakland. Our annual Harvest Festival, a benefit for Friends Committee on Legislation, has always been held at Hidden Villa Ranch where the Duvenecks also created summer camps for children of all races. Until recently, Josephine taught children in our First Day School and gave an annual Christmas Party for them. Her ministry in our Meetings for Worship was a combination of Light and learning, a manifestation of the Holy Spirit and her own canny practicality. Finally, all of us have memories of her private words of comfort or reproof, of individual acts of kindness and of examples of her wry wit. She has enlarged our vision of the potentialities of our common humanity and of the work God calls us to in our time.

Elfbrandt, Barbara

Gerard, Jean

Giantonio, Carol

Goodenow, Leanore

Fairchild, Josselyn died after a month-long illness on May 16, 1998 at 72. She was born Josselyn (Jolly) Fairchild Bale in Inglewood, New Jersey, in 1925. As a child she was sick with tuberculosis and moved with her mother and three sisters to Tucson, Arizona. Once she recovered, the family moved to Pasadena, California. A liberal arts graduate of Scripps College, Josselyn worked as a teaching assistant and as a result became passionately interested in the biological sciences. When she first learned of DNA, she realized that there was a God. This led her to return to school in her forties to become a nurse. Retired from public health nursing, she was serving on the board of Ben Lomond Quaker Center when she died.

Josselyn came to the Religious Society of Friends after the death of her ten-year-old daughter Laura and the deterioration of her marriage to Knox Mellon. She found her home at Claremont Friends Meeting, which she joined in 1968. From then on, Josselyn was a spiritual seeker and active in her personal growth. She attended workshops of all sorts, especially art workshops. She was an accomplished artist and published poet.

In the early 1970’s, she became interested in Baghwan Rajneesh and in 1972 became one of his followers. This experience provided her with an energetic contrast to Quaker quietness. Friends might remember her leading early morning "breath of fire" meditations at PYM and quarterly meetings. While in the community with Rajneesh, she became more accepting of herself, her body, and others. This, perhaps, explains in part why she was such a dynamic person and the first to go out and dance. During her time with Rajneesh, she and her partner, Charles Donnelly, adventured far and wide, hiking, mountain climbing, rock climbing, and even taking a trip to Ireland.

Josselyn moved to Davis in 1984, in order to form a housing cooperative after spending nearly a year at Esalen.

During construction the project lost funding and Josselyn was left with her own tiny apartment. But the spirit of communal living remained with her. She spent the 1994-1995 academic year in the community of Pendle Hill. This was a significant time of personal and spiritual growth for her. Already known for the spiritual depth of her spoken ministry, she returned to become a teacher for her meeting. She had developed daily spiritual practices and was centered in prayer and devotional reading. From Quaker spirituality to the ecstatic poetry of Rumi and New Age spirituality, Josselyn read widely.

She was also a tireless peace activist. Each year, she celebrated her birthday, August 6, by marching in protest to nuclear weapons on Hiroshima Day. She engaged in civil disobedience at the Nevada Nuclear Test Site and was active in other peace groups such as Grandmothers for Peace. She was becoming interested in the environment. It was from her life experiences of losses, chronic arthritic pain and struggles with her own failings that she gained compassion for others. She was full of love, was a passionate liver of life, and a spiritual mentor to many. It was in her peace activities and in her care for the members and attendees of Davis Friends Meeting that Josselyn most put her spiritual life into action. She said being clerk of Davis Friends Meeting was her crowning spiritual achievement.

Gottlieb, Hans. Died peacefully in his Carbondale, Colorado, home, January 9, 1987, at the age of 95.

He was born July 20, 1891, in Vienna, Austria, to Otto and Martha Gottlieb. He studied at the Universities of Vienna, Heidelberg, and Munich, receiving his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Munich in 1914. In 1924 he emigrated to the United States. He married Leonore Sakmann in 1935.

He worked as a research chemist for several chemical companies, spending 20 years with the DuPont Company.

Upon retiring in 1956, the Gottlieb family came to Boulder where Hans continued his research work at the University of Colorado and became a vital part of the life of the Boulder Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.

Hans was one of the earliest members of the Boulder Meeting, actively supporting the construction of the meeting house and helping with many "do-it-yourself" projects. He was instrui-nental in getting Colorado to pass a Quaker marriage bill; he served on the peace and service committee, on ministry and counsel, and as clerk. He wrote on conscientious objection, worked for the abolition of capital punishment, the stopping of nuclear testing, for Indian legislation, the Colorado Fair Housing Act, protection of migrant workers, among other issues. His impact on the Boulder Meeting went far beyond the nine years that he spent with the Meeting.

He was exceedingly well read in world literature, philosophy and the Bible. He gave the Boulder Meeting an outreach and presence it would not have had without him. He was a deeply religious Christian whose ministry in Meeting for Worship was frequent and inspired. He was concerned with our Meeting life but also with each one of us personally.

In 1965, he and Leonore moved to Carbondale, where he continued to be an active member of the Society of Friends, a dedicated student of the Bible, an ardent pacifist, a vigorous supporter of humanitarian and environmental causes, and an outspoken campaigner for the Democratic Party. The Boulder Meeting established in 1966 the annual "Hans Gottlieb lecture" on religious and Quaker concerns. The first lecture was given by Stephen Carey on "The Relevance of the Quaker Way to Our Times." On Hans’ 90th birthday, Colorado Governor Richard Lamm honored him by proclaiming July 20th to be Hans Gottlieb Recognition Day. Hans Gottlieb is survived by Leonore, his wife of 51 years; a daughter, Susanna Harper, of Syracuse, New York; a son, Dr. Thomas Gottlieb, of Arvada, Colorado; and four grandchildren.

Graham, Jim, a member of Fort Collins Friends Meeting, died August 6, 1997 at age 75. Jim was a convinced Friend and one of the founders of the Fort Collins Meeting. The Meeting first met in the Illsley’s and Graham’s living rooms, and later moved to the United Campus Ministry house, the Colorado Academy of the Art School then on Olive St., the Montessori School on North Shields St. and, finally, three years ago, into the current Meeting House. Jim was a faithful and hard working member of Meeting and his contributions will long be remembered. In his last years, he attended meeting in a wheelchair as long as he was able, accompanied by his wife, Jane.

He was born July 29, 1922 in Akron, Ohio, and grew up in Michigan. His father had served in the military in Europe during World War I and returned a convinced pacifist. Later, his father was asked to be pastor of the local community church in Grant, Michigan, and led a Danish-type folk school there. Jim attended the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and it was there that he first became acquainted with Friends at the Madison Friends Meeting. During the late 30’s and 40’s it was not easy for a young man to be a conscientious objector, but Jim convinced his draft board and performed alternative service during World War II. He worked for about a year, putting out forest fires and planting trees in Oregon. Then, as one of 32 volunteers, he spent 18 months in the Semi-Starvation program at the University of Minnesota, helping scientists to see what effects long term starvation would have on people and what the best treatments for them would be, in anticipation of the release of concentration camp survivors. This study is still cited in currently used nutritionist texts.

After World War II, he worked in the United Nations Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Assistance program, tending cattle and horses on ships going to Poland. Subsequently, he was a part of the American Friends Service Committee’s program working with disabled refugees from Spain in southern France. In 1948, he returned to Wisconsin to finish his B.A. and began graduate work in International Relations. Beginning in 1951, he worked for eighteen years in the U.S. State Department of US Information Agency in various capacities and at various posts including Teacher of English as a Foreign Language in Mexico, Bi-national Center Director in Chile, Cultural Attache in Venezuela, a tour in Washington, DC, Public Affairs Officer in Guyana. He resigned in 1968, seven years before eligibility for a pension, rather than be assigned to Vietnam during the war. After a year of looking for work, he became the Foreign Student Advisor and then, Director of International Services, at Colorado State University where he also served eighteen years. He resigned to devote more time to his interest in computers, particularly creating an Internet connection for the NAFFA: Association of International Educators, in which he was active. He is survived by his wife Jane Graham of Fort Collins, Colorado, and four children: Bruce Graham of New Zealand, Margaret Graham Haass of Germany, Susan Graham Mack also of Germany, and Barbara Andre of Fort Collins. He also is survived by 9 grandchildren. Jim was a courageous and exemplary Friend who strove for his whole life to find that of God in others. He was especially drawn to cultures other than his own and served people as a messenger of the Light throughout his life. We are all blessed for having known him and continue to be blessed by his heritage in this Meeting community.

Graves, Barbara

Gray, Mike (IMYM Youth Service Project)

Gray, Robert W. (PSW AFSC Exec. Sec.

1965-74)

Harlow, Julie

Hartsough, David

Heeb, Arthur (first editor Friends Bulletin)

Henley, David E. (So. Cal. AFSC Exec. Sec.

1942-46)

Henry, Anthony H. (PSW AFSC Exec. Sec.

Hernandez, Jorge. 65, on March 7, 1997, in Mexico City. Born in Santiago Ixcuintia, Nayarit. He grew up in Nayarit where he made friends with AFSC volunteers working in a long term UNESCO project. As a result, he was sent as a volunteer to El Salvador. On his return, he continued his education in Mexico City and married Corinne Joseph in 1955, the first wedding in Casa de los Amigos. Active in the Mexico City Friends Meeting, he became a founder of Casa de los Amigos (Friends Center) and later after the 1977 Wichita Conference was a founder and clerk of the Latin American Committee (COAL) of FWCC Section of the Americas. He translated many Quaker publications into Spanish beginning when he was Quaker in Residence in Pendle Hill. His final contribution was the Spanish translation of John Woolman’s Journal, now in the process of publication.

Jorge and Corinne began their married life co-directing a shelter for street children in Mexico City with David and Skippy Pascoe; then took six or seven street boys and made a home for them. Later they directed the Casa de los Amigos guest house while Jorge got his degree in Sociology at the National University. He then went to Harvard for graduate studies. On his return he was chief of staff for the governor of his native state and later regional director of the Historical and Anthropological Institute. Moving to Mexico City he designed a bilingual education program in the Department of Education for 54 different cultural groups with texts for primary school students. He then went to the National Indian Institute as a top administrator and at the time of his death, he had returned to his first love, teaching, as a professor of bilingual education to Indian teachers. He is survived by two sons, David and Daniel, two daughters, Loma and Sarah, and two grandsons.

Hobson, Arline

Hobson, Arthur. Born on Tenth Month, Fifteenth, 1910, died on Second Month, Third, 1987, Arthur was the very heart of the Hobson family, the source of strength and love and personal dignity for each person, to say nothing of the focus for humor, merriment, and constant joking-always a gentle humor.

Phenomenally strong, loving to master physical challenges, to compete athletically, and to dance with rare grace and gusto, especially in 3/4 time, he literally vibrated energy and vitality. In parallel with this was his gentle soul, so attuned to the environment and so intuitively responsive to others, a real asset to his professional mission to nurture youth into maturity... But, let us not make this vibrant, rich human person appear saintly. His stubbornness was beyond belief and he was forever teaching, even when everyone was disinterested, he taught on anyway. Friends know that he made them uncomfortable with his uninvited lectures about the hazards of their smoking, for example.

A birthright Quaker, Art’s lineage on both sides reached back many generations, even to the time of George Fox, when some Cromwellians defected to the Religious Society of Friends, and even worse to the cause of the despised Irish. Irish/English blood ran in his veins competing at times for control. Before that time the history of Hobson nonconformity reached to one of the translators of the Tyndall Bible and to the first person beheaded by Bloody Mary. Art and Arline attempted to retain the spirit of nonconformity in their family where Art took enormous pride in the uniqueness of each child and grandchild.

Art was planning to be at the 50th anniversary of his class in June at Springfield College. His graduation in 1937 led naturally into a YMCA position. In Toronto he met and married Arline Booth.

Art’s professional career moved from the YMCA to Quaker mission service among the Osage Indians, to teaching in New York City in the famous progressive Dalton Schools, to teaching in the Japanese War Relocation Center, to education of the Navajo in the Bureau of Indian Affairs and later in the Indian Health Service.

Multiple sclerosis plagued Art for much of his adult life, finally forcing an early retirement and a move to Tucson where the family suffered all the agonies of reurbanization.

The first years of their marriage among the Osages in Oklahoma were an opening to the diversity of spirit. On the occasion of Art’s memorial, 47 years later, Indian friends blessed them again with pollen, purifying smoke and Indian song. Survivors include his wife Arline, his sons Arthur K. Hobson, Jr. and William Hobson, and his daughter Gracia Hiatt and nine grandchildren.]

Hoffman, Gene Knudsen.  The following bio appeared in "A Western Quaker Reader":

Gene Knudsen Hoffman is the mother of seven sons and daughters. She has had careers in Theatre, Radio, Writing, Psychology, and Peace. Gene joined the Society of Friends in 1950 at Orange Grove Meeting, Pasadena, and is now a member of the Santa Barbara Meeting.

Gene has worked with the Fellowship of Reconciliation since joining that organization in 1951. From 1983-89 she worked on US/USSR relations, seeking to put a human face on the Soviets for Americans. From 1989 to the present she has been working in the Middle East, studying the causes of conflict there.

Gene is author of Ways Out—The Book of Changes for Peace (John Daniel & Company, 1988), All Possible Surprises (Parallex Press, 1991), Mideast Puzzle (Pax Christi, 1991)—all forerunners to No Royal Road to Reconciliation.

At age eighty, Gene continues to promote reconciliation through “compassionate listening.” Most recently, she was asked by the AFSC to lead a workshop in Alaska to help native and non-native peoples learn how to listen deeply to one another and thereby increase understanding.

House, Harvey Walter, member of Orange Grove Meeting, was born in Tientsin, China, November 16, 1897, to Herbert E. and Myrtle B. House who had recently arrived in that city to take charge of a Temperance Society Mission for American seamen. Father House taught English to the sons of Yuan Shi Kai, who was prime minister under the Empress Dowager and had charge of her army. The Boxer Rebellion prompted their return to America.

This contact of his parents with Chinese Youth, and the love thus generated for both the youth of China and its people as a whole became determining factors in the life of young Harvey.

On return to America, Harvey’s parents became a team preaching the message of Christian opportunity in China. Herbert House spent the next fifteen years of his life raising money to develop the culture and the life of the Chinese.

Harvey, an only child, thus grew up under continuing Christian influence, heavily weighted with church and Sunday school.

Harvey went to Manual Arts High School in California. Following a bent toward science, in 1915 he enrolled as a student at Throop College of Technology in Pasadena, later named Cal-Tech. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering in 1920.

During World War 1, Harvey developed the desire to return to his native land with the intent of developing industry for the benefit of the people of China. He received an invitation to become an instructor in Chemistry at the Ling Nan University. This led to two of the happiest years of his life, which ended in a forced return to Pasadena for surgery. During a prolonged recovery period, Harvey returned to Cal-Tech by earning a Masters Degree in his same profession. He entered the field of chemistry. During the stormy depression years which followed, he sold life insurance, did private tutoring, and taught in his private school. During this period he developed a growing interest in cooperatives.

Harvey met Gerri, his wife, who shared the rough exposures as well as the great hopes. Through the intermediary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, both joined Orange Grove Meeting and became involved with Pacific Ackworth School where daughter Sylvia and son Freeman attended during their elementary school years.

After working for a co-op in Berkeley, Harvey began work in 1945 with the clay pipe industry which later became national in scope, including the ten years ending about 1978 in which he did consulting. Harvey also became interested in housing and community building problems in the city of Pasadena, especially in the Villa-Park area.

Soon after this return to Pasadena, son Freeman was born and through him and his older sister, Sylvia, Harvey and Gerri were blessed by six grandchildren. In October, 1982, Harvey fulfilled his life-long dream of returning to China.

Harvey was a Renaissance man for all seasons. His love of the arts, literature, ideas and science were augmented by his uncompromising belief in the goodness of man. He was a marvelous teacher with his feet on the ground, except when he was dancing, and his head in the clouds. Harvey left this vale of wonders with gratitude for a life of great richness and joy on May 22, 1983.

Hunt, Trudie. Died in Santa Rosa on August 8, 1997, after a long life in the service of the disadvantaged. She was born Gertrude Cousens in Portland, Maine, on December 13, 1916. She was graduated from Wellesley College in Art History and from Columbia University in Library Science. Her first professional work included both fields as she served as Art Reference Librarian at the New York Public Library.

Trudie met Tom Hunt while a student at Columbia. Their marriage in 1939 began a partnership that lasted until Tom’s death in 1996. They worked for the American Friends Service Committee in Seattle and in Wichita, Kansas, and served with the Quaker Child Feeding Program in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 1946-47. There followed a number of years spent focused on Sierra Club work and AFSC activities in Southern California. They became members of the Mexico City Friends Meeting and established a worship group in Guatemala in the early 1970’s. It was while she was a librarian at the Universidad Del Valle in Guatemala that they began the work for which both Tom and Trudie are remembered among Friends around the world.

The Guatemala Friends Student Scholarship And Loan Program, begun in the early 1970’s, was the work which absorbed much of their energies and talents for the past 25 years. This was designed to provide scholarships and loans to serve the needs of native peoples in training in technical and professional fields in their own country. The program, which started with one student, has provided opportunities for higher education for over 400 Highland Mayans since the beginning. There are currently over 100 students in the program. The work is being carried on by members of the Guatemala Friends Meeting and a. committee of Redwood Forest Friends Meeting.

Shortly after Torh’s death, Trudie moved north to Friends House in Santa Rosa, California, and transferred her membership to Redwood Forest Meeting, which has been receiving funds for the support of the scholarship program for a number of years. She is survived by her son Peter and two granddaughters.

Innerst, J. Stuart, Peace Committee chairman of La Jolla Monthly Meeting, died in his La Jolla home August 30, 1975. His life began 81 years ago in Dallastown, Pennsylvania.

As a young man, encouraged by his mother, he decided on a career in the ministry. His training was at Lebanon Valley College, Pennsylvania; United Seminary, Dayton, Ohio; and Union Theological Seminary; also some graduate work at Columbia University.

He and his wife, Marion Reachard, went to China as missionaries in 1920. Seven years later they left in protest against Western interference in China’s affairs. Two pastorates in Ohio followed, and a period of writing for religious publications. Then in 1946 he and Marion came to California, where from 1957 for six years he was minister at First Friends Church, Pasadena. His concern for world peace led to service with the AFSC, the Peace Board of California Yearly Meeting, and the Board of Peace and Social Concerns of Friends United Meeting.

During the 86th and 87th Congresses, he directed the "Friend in Washington" program, and four times in the 1960s was invited by the World Peace Council to conferences in Europe.

Stuart’s love of China grew over the years. He chaired the Understanding China Committee of the AFS C and PYM’s "Friend in the Orient" program. He was the first editor of the Understanding China Newsletter and one of 15 American Quakers who wrote " A New China Policy: Some Quaker Proposals."

Stuart’s most treasured distinction came in 1972 when he was invited to visit the People’s Republic of China, the first former American missionary to be so honored.

Marion Innerst died in 1964. In December, 1965 he married Gladis Barber Vorhees. Gladis, his, two sons, two daughters, 17 grandchildren, and two great grandchildren, survive him. A memorial service was held in La Jolla on Sept. 13.

Johnson, Paul B. (So. Cal. AFSC Exec. Sec. 1946-51)

Johnson, Paul. Born in Duluth, Minnesota; died on July 13, 1996, in Santa Rosa, California. Graduated from Antioch College in 1932, followed by graduate work in sociology at the University of Wisconsin. In 1936 he married his Antioch classmate, Jean Hanson.

During World War II, he was sentenced to three years in Texarkana Federal prison for opposing conscription. Paroled after thirteen months to be the Executive Secretary of the AFSC office in Seattle, the only C.O. to be paroled to the AFSC. Two years later he became the Executive Secretary of the AFSC in Pasadena. In 1949 he became the last director of the Quaker relief program in the Gaza Strip and later the first director of the refugee program under the United Nations Relief and Works Administration for over 200,000 Palestinian refugees. Beginning in 1952, the Johnsons were involved in an AFSC social and technical assistance program in five impoverished villages in Jordan until the project was destroyed by the anti-Western riots of 1956.

In 1957 he organized the Quaker Conference for Diplomats in Ceylon. From 1958-68, he was director of the Diplomats Program in Europe, based in Geneva, Switzerland. Twice during those years he undertook surveys, with Jean’s help, in West Africa and Cambodia. In West Africa he traveled to seventeen countries, laying the groundwork for a seminar program. In 1967 he worked in Phnom Penh, Southeast Asia, to gain the confidence of North Vietnamese and to help establish a Quaker Aid Program in North Vietnam. In 1968 Paul returned to the Middle East to help the AFSC in its efforts to seek solutions for Arab-Israeli conflicts. Both he and Jean were members of the working party which prepared the AFSC-sponsored publication Search for Peace in the Middle East (1970).

Retiring to Santa Barbara in 1974, Paul served as clerk of the Meeting and as a member of ministry and oversight. Both he and Jean traveled in Europe and the United States to hear outstanding opera performances. Moving to Friends House in Santa Rosa in 1990, Paul served on the ministry and worship committee of Redwood Forest Meeting.

Paul is survived by his wife Jean and two brothers, Richard M. Johnson and David B. Johnson.

Jump, Ellis. Ellis Jump died in September 1989 following a brief period of rapidly failing health. Ellis was born in 1909 in New England, where his father was a Congregational minister. He attended college at Dartmouth, dental school at Harvard, and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

In 1943 Ellis married his sister’s friend Margaret Endicott whom he had only met two times. They were married under the care of the Vine St. Meeting in Berkeley and then moved to Portland where they lived until Meg died in 1984. Shortly after her death, Ellis’s health began failing and he went to live with his son Leyton and his family in Tenino, WA.

Ellis and Meg were early members of the Pacific Association of Friends which later bacame Pacific Yearly Meeting. They were instrumental in the founding of North Pacific Yearly Meeting. On the local level they were early members of Willamette Monthly Meeting and founding members of Multnomah Monthly Meeting in Portland. After his move to Tenino. Ellis transferred his membership to Olympia Monthly Meeting.

Ellis is remembered by friends for a variety of reasons. He was active with the AFSC and spent two years in Germany as his alternative service. He was a "fiddler and tinkerer" and spent hours working on the upkeep of Multnomah meetinghouse. He served on finance and budget committees at all levels and worked as Jr. Friends Advisor and camp counselor in the 1960s. More recently he is remembered as the Captain of the jump Off, a 36 ft. sailboat that many Friends had the chance to crew.

Ellis rarely spoke in Meeting. When he did, his messages were somewhat long and filled with scientific explanations of mystical experiences. His dry sense of down-to-earth, New England humor, combined with his being an absent-minded professor, will continue to be missed by many Friends.

Jump, Margaret, the presiding clerk of North Pacific Yearly Meeting, died on March 8, 1984, at the age of 70, following a brief illness with cancer. Friends had been looking forward to her first chairing of North Pacific annual sessions this July. Until near the very end, Meg was alert and active, dictating notes about Yearly Meeting and other Quaker affairs. As far as she could, she meant to complete her life’s work.

During her years of Quaker work, Meg had often stressed the ecumenical. It was, therefore, fitting that her memorial service was held March 17 in Reedwood Friends Church, an evangelical Quaker church, rather than Multnomah Meeting which was too small for the many who wished to attend. She was active with the Friends World Committee for Consultation. When she was chairperson of the American Friends Service Committee Pacific Northwest region (1962-64), she was sensitively engaged in better relations between unprogrammed, pastoral and evangelical Friends, some of whom served on staff and committees of the AFSC region. She was instrumental in a number of cooperative undertakings between Multnomah Meeting and Reedwood Friends Church. She was active in the regional and national AFSC from 1955 onward and served on the national Board of Directors from 1962-64. From 1953-55, Meg and her husband Ellis directed the AFSC refugee service work in Darmstadt, Germany.

Meg was active in other associations: the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom; the American Association of University Women; the Portland Zoo Commission; the Oregon Memorial Association. She also at one time served as a tutor in a literacy project at Portland Community College.

Meg Jump’s life as a Quaker, a wife and mother was only part of it. She earned her B.A. and M.A. degrees from Mount Holyoke College and (in 1939) a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Yale. Following this, Meg continued for nearly two decades to do research work and to teach as an instructor or assistant professor of chemistry at Mount Holyoke, Hollins College in Virginia, the University of North Carolina, the University of Oregon and Reed College. She assisted in writing several chemistry research papers.

Born Margaret M. Endicott in Pleasantville, NJ, she married Ellis B. Jump (in 1945) who served for many years on the faculty of the University of Oregon College of Medicine. - Meg leaves Ellis; two sisters, Virginia Jones of Norwalk, Conn., and Florence Harris of Bradenton, Fla.; two daughters, Constance Jump of Seattle and Janet Berleman of Portland; a son, Leyton of Escondido, Calif.; and two grandchildren. The family has requested that any memorial gifts be sent to the AFSC in Seattle, Multnomah Meeting in Portland, or the Friends World Committee for Consultation in Philadelphia.

Kendig, Bobbi

Kimball, Charles and Jeanne

Krekler, Norman Richard, botanist and AFSC/ASA volunteer, member of Elk Monthly Meeting, Indiana Yearly Meeting, Hermosillo, Mendicino WorshipGroup, Intermountain Yearly Meeting and Pacific Yeary Meeting, died on July 22, 1993, at home in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, following the Light during his battle with cancer. Norman was born July 1, 1928, in Butler County, Ohio. He was a graduate of the Oakwood Friends School class of 1945 and Whittier College, 1950. He also attended Earlham College (1949).

During most of his adult life Norman was a volunteer in Mexico with AFSC, the Mexican Friends Service Committee (MFSC), and the Asociacion Sonorense de Los Amigos, A.C. (ASA). Among the positions he held were: assistant to MFSC director, leader of several AFSC workcamps, Project Director of ASA, and member of the Arizona AFSC Area Committee. He felt led to provide a Quaker presence in Sonora and volunteered much of his time, organizing opportunities for youth to experience living in Mexican rural communities.

Survivors include his father, William H. Krekler, of Tucson, Arizona; daughter and son-in-law, Karina and David Budd of Tucson, Arizona; two sons, Eric W. and Timothy J. and a grandson, Joaquin E. all of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico; a sister, Corinne; a brother, Bruce; and nieces. He was preceded in death by his wife, Exelee (McMahan) Krekler, and his mother, Alice (Roberts) Krekler.

Kendig, Bobbi. Date of birth: February 7, 1936, in Aurora, Illinois. In January 2001, Bobbi wrote the following about her life-in-progress:

I grew up in Illinois and Florida.University degrees: BA degree in creative writing, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. MSW in social work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

While in college in Evanston, Illinois, I discovered Friends as I shopped around for a church community. When I moved to Long Beach in 1957, I tried attending the pastoral First Friends Church in Long Beach, but I missed the silence. It was not until 1964, when birthright Quaker Edwin Kendig and I planned to marry, that I again found myself among Friends. We were married under the care of Orange Grove Monthly Meeting on June 13, 1964. Since the 1980s we have been regular attenders of Marloma Long Beach Monthly Meeting.

In Marloma Long Beach I instigated and continue to clerk a First Day school program serving a family of inner city children. I serve currently on the Ministry and Oversight Committee and the Peace and Social Order Committee. In SCQM I have served as Reporter to the Friends Bulletin, as Clerk of the Nominating Committee, and currently as a member of the Ministry and Counsel Committee. In PYM I am now a member of the Peace and Social Order Committee. I am also deeply involved in rallying support for a Quaker doctor, Charles Tauber, and his Coalition for Work With Psychotrauma and Peace in Vukovar, Croatia.

In addition to my reports on SCQM, an article, and a letter printed in the Friends Bulletin, I have authored one published book, "Cedar House: A Model Child Abuse Treatment Program."

Krekler, Exelee McMahan,  a friend to so many in both Sonora and Arizona died on February 17, 1990. Exelee, who was a member of the Education Committee of the Sonora-Arizona Commission, was an inspiration to all who knew her in the more than 30 years in which she lived in Hermosillo, Sonora. Her original community service work in affiliation with the American Friends Service Committee took her, along with her husband Norman, to numerous rural communities in Mexico. Since 1957, they worked in many communities in Sonora, as well as in the states of Morelos, Guanajuato and Tlaxcala, but their home base was always in Hermosillo.

In her many years of service to the people of Sonora, Exelee helped to establish and coordinate over 30 rural service projects in the Sierra of Sonora with participants from the United States and Mexico. She and Norman worked with volunteers who had participated in these projects to organize the Asociacion Sonorense de Los Amigos, A.C. She was an active member of the Board of Directors and was especially involved in the creation and administration

Kurose, Akiko. Died May 24, 1998, known for her integral involvement in the life of the Pacific Northwest Region of the American Friends Service Committee.

Aki and her family were interned during World War II at Minidoka, Idaho. A bright high school student, Aki was eligible for AFSC’s Student Relocation Service, which arranged for her to go to Friends University in Wichita, Kansas. Floyd Schmoe, then active in the newly established Seattle AFSC office, was instrumental in these arrangements, and when after the war Aki returned to Seattle, she assisted Floyd in running the Seattle office. She also accompanied Floyd, on his mission to Hiroshima after the war to rebuild houses,

She married Junelow ("Junx") Kurose and they had six children: Hugo, Ruthann, Rolland ("Rollie"), Guy, Marie and Paul. During their early childhood Aki worked energetically in preschool programs, later returning to the University of Washington for a Master’s in Education and beginning an extraordinary career in the Seattle public schools. In her classrooms, Aki demonstrated the power of emphases on peace, curiosity, knowledge and respect for the many cultures reflected by her students. A dedicated science teacher, she was part of a university program for teaching physics to primary students. She was active at the Pacific Science Center and worked long hours to prepare "hands on" experiences with science for her young pupils.

She joined the Religious Society of Friends in 1967 and remained a member of University Friends Meeting. In 1975, Aki joined AFSC’s Education Task Force, to which she also introduced her daughter Ruthann, and helped develop Seattle’s Education Program, which emphasized the involvement of students in the development and implementation of Seattle’s desegregation plan. One of her many contributions to the task force was her insistence that "bilingual/bicultural education" as it was known was too limited a concept; what was needed was multilingual, multicultural education. In her years teaching kindergarten, she implemented this concept by teaching her five and six year olds greetings and expressions of peace in many languages. While participating in long AFSC task force meetings, Aki made full use of her time preparing individual reading pamphlets for her kindergarten children, sitting in a big chair surrounded by piles of materials, never losing track of the discussion.

AFSC nominated Aki and she played an active role in the national Title I Advisory Committee, chaired by then AFSC staff member Hayes Mizell (of SEPEP, Southeast Public Education Program) overseeing the implementation of effective compensatory education, especially in desegregated schools.

During the summer of 1977, Seattle AFSC’s new Education Program undertook a fulltime student project, called SAFE (Student Action Force for Education). Aki remained an advisor and her second daughter, Marie, was a staff member in that project. During its second year, Aki’s son Guy joined the staff of the Education Program. Aki’s contributions were her own experience and wisdom, and also those of her adult children.

In the late 1970’s Aki was an active initiator in the movement for redress for Japanese Americans who had been interned during WW II. She brought this concern to the Seattle office of AFSC and secured its sponsorship of a series of forums, funded largely by the Washington Commission for the Humanities, called Contemporary Perspectives on the Internment. These forums, held in Seattle, Tacoma, and Spokane, provided the first public forums in which the Nisei communities looked at this historical experience together in public, reflected on its impact on their lives, those of their children, and of the community at large. At these forums the impulse to organize for redress was developed and nurtured.

Aki’s life experience raising teenagers through the turbulent 1960’s in Seattle’s Central Area and her teaching in Seattle public schools fed her active and intelligent approach to both multicultural education and promotion of peace education in the schools. She developed and used a peace curriculum, and worked hard to promote adoption at the state level of a K-12 Peace Curriculum.

During the 1980’s and 1990’s, Aki was an active member of Peace Committees in AFSC’s Seattle office, staffed in sequence by Craig Shimabukuro, Deni Yarnauchi Luna, and Artis Stewart. During all this time she brought her activist Quaker values to bear on program work. When Craig undertook multicultural youth leadership development work, Aki helped assure participants’ awareness of the need for peace within themselves. When the program experimented with honoring individuals for their work with youth, Aki insisted on the necessity of honoring nonviolent approaches to youth discipline.

Aki’s life and work and that of the AFSC are intertwined. The relationships have been reciprocal. Aki was sometimes impatient with AFSC, but she stayed with us. She benefited at crucial times from the AFSC, and the AFSC grew throughout the last fifty years from her persistent, life-changing radical vision of a world where all people live and grow together with mutual appreciation and respect and in peace.

At a celebration of Aki’s life held at the Seattle Center last December, elected officials from Congressman through governor to City Council and School Board vied to speak for their allotted three minutes. At the memorial celebration held on June 6, more than seven hundred people overflowed the hall. Aki was an important person in our community. AFSC is fortunate that we were one of her many priorities, even during the many years when she struggled against the cancer that finally took her life.

The AFSC recognizes this remarkable life and influence with love and gratitude.

Lewis, Rose

Lohmann, Jeanne

Lohmann, Henry. Our beloved member, Henry George Wolrad Lohmann, Jr., was gathered into the light and peace of God on May 1, 1985, following a courageous three year struggle with brain cancer. Hank died at home with the devoted care of family, hospice nurses and friends.

Hank was born August 6, 1922, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the third of Anna and Henry Lohmann’s four children. He excelled in school and enjoyed farnfly outings. He was taught early the rudiments of Christian faith as his family was active in the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod. The programs of the YMCA and its summer camps, where he served as counselor, were a significant part of his youth. Hank began to think through his pacifism as a student at Gettysburg College in 1940-42 and, when turned down as a Conscientious Objector, he joined the Navy Hospital Corps. During his years at the University of Chicago, Hank found the Religious Society of Friends which he joined with his wife Jeanne in 1948 following their 1947 marriage under the care of 57th Street Meeting.

Hank and Jeanne moved to Denver when Hank began work for the National Farmers Union. He was journalist and then editor of the Colorado Labor Advocate, AFL-CIO, from 1952-1960. Their four children-Stephen, David, Karen and Brian-were born in Denver where Hank and Jeanne helped found Mt. View Meeting. They served as directors of the first AFSC Interns-inAgriculture Project at Wilmington College when son Stephen was three months old.

In 1960 the family moved to San Francisco where Hank became Executive Secretary of Friends Committee on Legislation. They were soon a vital part of our San Francisco Meeting community and have remained so. Hank had a special concern for the children’s Religious Education Program and often served as a First Day School teacher. He was also Clerk of the Pacific Yearly Meeting’s Children’s Program and participated in the West Coast Quaker Association for Religion and Psychology, serving on its board.

He counselled many in the Meeting and gave much support to a Vietnamese family sponsored by the Meeting. He served on Ministry and Oversight and Peace and Social Order Committees, as well. All that Hank did was informed by his genuine interest in others and his quiet care for them.

Hank’s professional life changed course four times from labor and legislative advocate to teaching for twelve years at Mission High School with special emphasis on social studies-psychology and family life. He was active in the Teachers Union and served as President of the Faculty Senate. He also coached the fencing team. He took early retirement from teaching to complete course work and residencies for his Family and Marriage Counselling Certificate. He had a special gift as a listener and the ability to work in helpful ways with others. He had looked forward to establishing his own counselling practice, a dream interrupted by the onset of his illness. Hank demonstrated flexibility and great determination to pursue his goals even when he twice lost jobs. This same tenacity (some called it stubbornness!) enabled him to live through his illness, three surgeries and all the attendant treatments with hopefulness and purpose.

During Hank’s last years in which he mobilized all his spiritual and physical resources to work toward his own healing, he was remarkably free from self-pity, always turned outward toward others, inquiring after their lives. He maintained his sense of humor, scheduling laugh therapy as part of each day. He was a Friend who, even while ill, continued to work for peace and justice. He regularly wrote letters for victims of torture and unjust imprisonment, to the President and Congress and to newspapers. He walked his precinct on voting days urging people to vote, and he served on the Faith and life Commission of the Council of Churches until the time of his death.

ELking, bicycling, camping, canoeing, music and singing, meditation and prayer, the Meeting for Worship, daily walk in Golden Gate Park were sources of joy and strength for Hank as was his love for Jeanne and his family and friends, and their love for him. Concerning Hank’s care for the earth, Jeanne writes:

"Carrying clippers to the park, he cuts wild blackberry runners from bushes blocking the trail downhill to the clearing.

Stumbling over a protruding piece of broken fencewire, on the next day he brings a strip of white cloth and ties it on as a reminder, a small flag saying, if it can be helped, no one ever should get hurt.

He goes home with pockets full of discarded bottles and empty cans. Let them be used again, over and over, melted down and turned into new containers.

The world pulls in and his energies are less, but this is the way he keeps his life. Caretaker he has been and will be, watching over what he loves, straightening land he will be leaving, turning toward it with tender attention.

His hands make the prayer of his heart."

Helping was the cornerstone of Hank’s life. During his last months, he devoted time to visiting the ill and dying, making tapes of stories, songs and family reminiscence and constructing a boat of milk cartons for a grandson. He also willed his body to the experimental cancer research program in which he was enrolled at the University of California Hospital.

In his dying, as in his living, Hank taught us courage, trust, hope, humor and praise.

Hank is survived by his wife and children and grandchildren-Danny and Christina Lohmann, Samuel Henry Lohmann and Ramona Rose Tougas-and his sister, Mary Jane Wilson, and brother, Arthur Lohmann.

Mack, Arthur M. (PSW AFSC Exec. Sec.

1974-77)

Massey, Marshall

McCalister, Frances

Mendenhall, W.O.

Miles, Ross and Laura

Miles, Ward and Alice

Miller, Beatrice. Born in New York City, April 13, 1920, to a family of recently immigrated Lithuanian Jews. She often said that much of her outlook was formed by growing up during the Depression. She was raised by her mother, Eva Rappaport, who was one of the original organizers of the Ladies Garment Workers Union in New York City. In June of 1948 Bea and her friend Evelyn Fractor came to Los Angeles for a vacation. They loved it so much they made plans to move there permanently. But in 1949 Bea returned to New York to work for the State Department in England and Germany.

Bea lived in Europe for two years, where she traveled and made many friends. In 1953 she returned to Los Angeles where she joined a Great Books discussion group. The leader of this group was Kenneth Miller, whom she married in 1954. In 1956 her son Rex was born, and in 1958 her daughter Eva. Bea worked as a legal secretary and in her 50’s returned to school to become a paralegal.

During the Vietnam War, Bea became active in WILPF and learned about the Quakers. She began attending Orange Grove Meeting in Pasadena and AFSC at Peace Camp. Always mindful of her Jewish heritage, she was a Quaker Jew. She became a voice for the weak, an advocate for the powerless, and she was never afraid to speak truth to power. She hated injustice and oppression, and fearlessly confronted aggression and hypocrisy whenever she saw them. She was an ardent supporter of the American Friends Service Committee and a leading member of its Middle East Committee.

Bea loved literature, the arts, nature, and animals, especially cats. Above all, Bea loved people. She cherished her family. When asked what she thought her most important accomplishment was, she said, "I am unequivocally proud of having raised two fine children, both good people who will, I believe, make the world a better place because they are in it."

Minor, Charles. Born June 22, 1920, to Oscar and Eula Minor in rural Greene County, Iowa. He died January 24, 1997, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A wide community knew Chuck Minor as a man of principle and integrity. His influence on many lives was strong and sustained. He was loyal, kind, friendly, open-minded and willing to listen. He loved fly fishing, planting trees and fighting the good fight to grow gardens in the Southwest. We especially remember his sense of humor, his wide grin and his ready laugh.

He grew up on a farm, attended a one-room elementary school, and graduated from Churdan High School in 1937. His interest in forestry dated from his high school years; on a family trip to a Farm Bureau convention in California he got up early one morning after an overnight stop in Arizona and watched a log train passing by. That glimpse of forestry work pointed him to a lifelong vocation. In 1941 he graduated from Iowa State University with a B.S. in Forestry. The following year he attended Duke University where he earned a Master’s degree in Forestry. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1942 and served as a radio code instructor and chief radio operator aboard troop transport ships. In 1943 he married Mary J. Brand, whom he had met at Iowa State. Following his discharge from the Army in 1946, Chuck taught Forestry at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, and later worked at Kirby Lumber Company in Houston, Texas. He re turned to Duke University to work on a Ph D, also teaching at Clemson Univer sity in South Carolina as he finished his graduate work. In 1958 he was awarded a Doctoral degree in Forestry from Duke, and accepted a job starting a new School of Forestry at Northern Arizona University (then Arizona State College) in Flagstaff. As founding Dean of the N.A.U. School of Forestry, Chuck spent 25 years developing and promoting the Forestry program leading to undergraduate and master’s degrees. He hired professors, planned the innovative curriculum based on team teaching, with the help of the new faculty, and obtained the N.A.U. School Forest west of Flagstaff from the State of Arizona to provide a field laboratory for students. His goal was to provide students with the tools to be flexible in dealing with career demands they met later on, whether as professional foresters or in other fields. He was particularly known for his focus on students, his genuine interest in their lives and careers, and his emphasis on keeping in touch with alumni, often visiting former students while travelling.

Quakers were an important influence on Chuck’s life. His grandmother established a rural Friends Meeting, and his mother, aunt, and uncle were educated at William Penn College in Iowa. He had respect and admiration for the Quaker way of life, and a desire to follow those values in his own life. Chuck and Mary Minor helped found Friends Meetings in Baton Rouge, Houston, and Flagstaff. Chuck helped found Intermountain Yearly Meeting, served the Yearly Meeting as Treasurer, and served numerous terms on the Arizona Area Committee of the American Friends Service Committee. During the Vietnam war, he did draft counseling in Flagstaff when there were few others willing to discuss alternatives to military service with draft age young men.

Chuck was also active in wider community affairs. He served on the Boards of the Museum of Northern Arizona and the Arboretum at Flagstaff. Beginning in the late 1960s, he encouraged and participated in exchange visits between the Society of American Foresters and its Mexican counterpart, the Mexican Association of Professional Foresters. In 1984, he testified as an expert witness for the Navajo Nation in a federal trial in Albuquerque of Navajo tribal timber claims against the United States. He also worked with tribal forestry offices of the Hualapai, Mescalero and Jicarilla tribes. At the time of his death, he was a Board member of the San Carlos Apache Timber Products Corporation near Globe, Arizona, and also continued on the Board of the Arboretum at Flagstaff.

Moon, Eric

Morgenroth, Edwin (PYM clerk 1963-?)

Morgenroth, Molly. A wave of shock and loss ran through Pacific Yearly Meeting and North Pacific Yearly Meeting at the news of the death of Molly Morgenroth at Pendle Hill in the early morning of February 17, 1975. The day after she died quietly in her sleep a meeting for worship honored her memory and Ed Morgenroth’s loss. Later, memorial meetings were held at Orange Grove and Orange County Meetings in PYM, Molly’s two home meetings, on March 16 and March 21. There the following biography was read.

On the morning of February 17, 1975, Molly Anderson Morgenroth died quietly in her apartment at Pendle Hill, following an especially beautiful day of companionship with her husband. Pendle Hill is a Quaker Study Center near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Molly was born October 2, 1904 in Tomah, Wisconsin. She was graduated from the University of Wisconsin and studied at UCLA, USC, New York University and the Merrill Palmer Institute, Detroit. She was married to Edwin C. Morgenroth in 1934. There are two sons, Peter, who lives in Australia, and Christopher, who lives in northern California. There are two grandchildren. She was a member of the Orange Grove Friends Meeting in Pasadena and a past clerk of the Orange County Friends Meeting. She has lived with her family in Corona del Mar since 1948. She and her husband were founding co-directors of Pacific Oaks College and Children’s School. She was a member of the faculty at California State University at Long Beach where she taught Child Development and related courses. She is the author, composer and illustrator of Story Songs That Spin Themselves. She was active in committees of the Pacific Yearly Meeting, a member of the National Organization for Women, the National Association for the Education of Young Children. Her long and creative professional career included serving as a staff member of the Julius Rosenwald Fund to work in rural education in the American South, supervisor of the Federal Nursery Schools in Los Angeles in the 1930’s, a staff member of the Hudson Guild and the Caroline Zachry Institute in New York City. Other periodic assignments with her husband for the American Friends Service Committee were also a part of her life.

This last fall Molly and Ed went to Pendle Hill as students and as dear members of that Quaker community. Their time there blessed them both: their lives were rounded by that experience into an harmonious, vibrant peace which their concerns for others had never quite left them time for. As they were recovering from a bout of flu near the middle of the second term they had a long uninterrupted day of talking in which they gathered up for - and from - each other this new sense of their lives’ wholeness. The next morning Molly was gone. Molly, whose spirit Ed described as a volcano of lovely thoughts and deeds, had at last worn out the long prison of her body’s polio; and Ed, the core of whose life had always been service, was left marked with the realization of a terrible beauty.

West Coast Friends have lost their most talented listener and one of their wisest, quietest voices. Our debt to Molly - and to Ed - cannot now be even fully remembered; it will be some time before it can be rightly weighed. In what Ed called his "later years" he wrote these lines about his life and Molly’s:

Ed will return to Pendle Hill for the spring term, ending in early June. After that his plans are not certain, but he does expect to return to his home in Corona del Mar for a brief time about the middle of June. Friends who wish to send Ed a check for some yet undetermined memorial project for Molly are encouraged to remember her in this way.

Murphy, Robert C.

Murray, Augustus

Nelson, Tom and Grace

O’Brien, Helen

O’Brien, Robert William. Born April 13,1907, died on October 27,1991, at home with his family. He was known and loved for his commitments to his family, his profession (teaching and writing), and activism in the fields of peace and justice.

Bob and Helen became members of the Society of Friends in the early 1940’s, first joining University Meeting in Seattle, Washington, and later becoming members of Whitleaf Meeting in Whittier, California, and affiliate members of Whi