[Dialogue] Cleveland Region Celebrates 50 for 50

[Joyce Bonafield]

Hi Judy and Norm,
 
                   Thanks for sending this out.  Great to see you at Southside (that was you, wasn't it?) in Arizona last winter.
I am interested in hearing about Emma Melton's Breakthrough Schools....and wondering if they're conneccted with the
Cleveland Congregations you mentioned.  
 
                    I am a doctoral student now in educational leadership (U. of St. Thomas here in Twin Cities), but I grew up in Cleveland OH, went to Orange HS in Pepper Pike, then Denison (in Granville, where Doris now is, and her daughter teaches).
 
                    Could you send me Emma's email address?  I'd also like Brady Melton's email also.  
 
Your celebration sounds like such a wonderful gathering!   We're having ours in Minneapolis at Sue & Stefan Laxdal's home on June 16th.
 
                            Thanks,
        Joyce Bonafield-Pierce
        jcbonafield at yahoo.com
              612-578-9597
 
                     
  

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 From: Norm and Judy Lindblad <nj.lindblad at gmail.com>
To: Colleague Dialogue <dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net>; Order Ecumenical Community <OE at wedgeblade.net> 
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 9:37 AM
Subject: [Dialogue] Cleveland Region Celebrates 50 for 50
  

Sixteen amazing folks - six in the flesh and ten through letters and videos - became a Wall of Wonder 
on behalf of the Cleveland Region on Saturday, May 19, 2012, in Hamilton, OH celebrating EI/ICA's 50th Anniversary. * 
 Those present included: Emma Melton, Cleveland; Ann Antenen our host at her Berkeley Square Community in Hamilton; and Myra Griffin,
Brady Melton , Jr., Norm and Judy Lindblad, Cincinnati.  In spirit and by YouTube: Mark, Jenelle and Tim Dove, Columbus; Jim and Joan Armour, Cincinnati; Michael May, Bloomington, IN; John Gibson, Indianapolis, IN; Nancy Lanphear, Bothel, WA; Frank Knutson, Redlands, CA; Gordon Harper, Seattle, WA, via e-mail and video; Doris Jane Conway, Granville, OH; and Suzanne Wason, San Antonio, TX, via Brady's cell phone!  All are "Alumni" or current residents of this "Region". 

An In Memorium table bore the pictures of deceased colleagues Jay Antenen, Anita Gibson, and Barbara Barkony.     As we sang "Believe - That The Time Has Come" we marvelled at how contemporary the words felt in our mouths.  Our song sheet is available if you're interested or curious.

Memories were shared from EG (Emerging Generation) adventures to Global Odysseys, and amazing, urgent requests for funds and faithful responses.   Myra Griffin said that she finds herself reflecting, "now where did I learn this?" and so often it is ICA. Then she remembers the person who taught or said it and the memories just flow...it"s like her Meditative Council.  Emma and Brady Melton shared a "Recipe" for Second and Third  Generation involvement in "The Movement" that bridged the past, present, and future.  It will be posted soon on the ICA-USA website.  Videos of Ohio Teacher of the Year for 2011, Tim Dove, and the Phoenix Middle School in Worthington, OH and Gordon Harper's ToP Trainers Crowd Meeting the Occupy Crowd also seeded our images of the future.      

We discerned a few other local building blocks for the future: the Sustainable Indiana 2016 initiative that John Gibson is working on; an Art therapy program for persons with Alzheimer's that Ann Antenen has sponsored in her retirement community; Brady Melton's "Yes I Am" program for youth drawing on Imaginal Education; and Emma Melton's  "Breakthrough Schools" and "Greater Cleveland Congregations" collaborative.   

The day concluded with Celebrations...Ann's  87th Birthday and Norm and Judy's 50th Wedding Anniversary... 21 Challenges, and Hopes for the Future "Strips" were created for the Anniversary Fabric Artform.  
In closing we again affirmed that"These Are The Times and We Are The People"!

*Pictures will follow in separate e-mail. 

 
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