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Volunteer Service Mission (VSM)
For those who have been reading this blog recently, I have been sharing from the journal I began during my Senior year at Scattergood Friends School (1969). At this point I’ve shared the writings from that year at Scattergood, and … Continue reading
Bear Creek response regarding VSM
When I recently shared the letter I wrote to Bear Creek Meeting regarding my participation in the Volunteer Service Mission (VSM), I was wondering what the meeting’s response had been. Yesterday I began to review a document I had written … Continue reading
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Letter to Bear Creek Concerning VSM
To Bear Creek Monthly Meeting 7/10/1971 Lewis Mott, clerk Dear Friends, I write in relation to a program sponsored by the Friends United Meeting (FUM) which I am now participating in. Known … Continue reading
Journal–7/6/1971
Journal 7/6/1971 I guess I feel badly because this is the first time I have really felt like I am a burden to others and have no means of support. I had thought the St. Vincent’s job was fairly secure, … Continue reading
Journal-Volunteer Service Mission begins
Journal 7/4/1971 This is my third day with the Friends Volunteer Service Mission (VSM), Friends United Meeting (FUM), Second Friends Church, Indianapolis, Indiana. Dad, Randy and Jon came with me straight from Okoboji. I’m glad they did. We spent July1 … Continue reading
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Tagged IFCL, Indianapolis, Volunteer Service Mission VSM
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Journal – Young Friends of North America 1971
Journal 5/2/1971 Young Friends of North American Conference on Outreach, Muncie, Indiana, 4/30/1971 – 5/2/1971 It was good to see Virginia, Wilson, my physics teacher from Scattergood. Glad she was interested in learning some more about computers. I taught her … Continue reading
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Tagged Connie Collette, Earlham College, Paul Cluxton, young Friends
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Journal–Friends Volunteer Service Mission
Journal 2/19/1971 I’m going to Indianapolis tomorrow to find out more about the Friends United Meeting’s Volunteer Service Mission project. (Note: The year before, my Senior year at Scattergood Friends School, Al Inglis visited to talk about a new Friends … Continue reading
John Griffith–War Resistance
I’ve been writing a lot about draft resistance lately. In the materials Don Laughlin collected related to Quakers and draft resistance, I found the following story written by John Griffith, member of Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative), War Resistance in World … Continue reading
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Tagged civil disobedience, draft resistance
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Scattergood Journal — April 19–30, 1970
(Note: I think it was Bob Berquist’s idea that those of us who were concerned about the Vietnam War visit with random people in West Branch to find out what they thought about the war. I remember being very apprehensive … Continue reading
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Tagged draft resistance, Martin Luther King, Vietnam War
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Scattergood Journal — April 13-14, 1970
April 13, 1970 I have looked forward to beginning a new volume of a journal. I have just finished an experiment with the first notebook, which was initiated at the beginning of this, my Senior year, at Scattergood School. I … Continue reading
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Tagged conscientious objection, draft resistance, Scattergood
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