[Dialogue] Tributes to Bill Norton

Tue Jan 8 16:59:36 PST 2019

I may be the only one of this group who knew Catherine before I’d heard of the Order. I first met her in Billings, Montana, at Rocky Mountain College. I was a senior, she a freshman. We lived in a 4-room wing of the Women’s Residence Hall. Two other women in that wing were also named Pierce, I believe spelled the same way. They were cousins and really hilarious. Another woman in that wing was doing her student teaching and also newly engaged. One night, the night she got an engagement ring, as I recall, all of the other women in that wing removed all her furniture from her room and stuffed it into the shower. We spread her covers and other bedding on the floor where her bed should have been. We were all disappointed when this poor woman came in, looked at her bedding, and crawled in as if the bed were still there. But Cathy, as we called her then, and the rest of us had a good laugh.
       The other part of that Rocky experience for Catherine involved my now-husband Doug, who was also a freshman then. I’m pretty sure Cathy went to Rocky to get away from anyone who knew the Order or the Ecumenical Institute. Doug says she looked at him with horror the first time she saw him. He was wearing a black beret with a wedge blade. “They’re everywhere!” her face seemed to say.
       The next time I saw her was when Doug and I joined the Order. I walked into the Westside kitchen and there she was. It was one of those wrong context things. I knew I knew her, but was completely flummoxed. She laughed at told me who she was. Then it made sense.
       As Karen Snider says, I also reconnected with her on Facebook. Journey on, Cathy.
Pat Druckenmiller

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From: Dialogue <dialogue-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net> on behalf of Sunny Walker via Dialogue <dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net>
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Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Tributes to Bill Norton

The only other Norton I knew was the Norton Anthology of English Literature (or something like that) and I associated it will Bill because he was so intelligent. I also thought of him as a big, wise, gentle bear because he was. Yes, Journey on. And for Catherine, I did not know you, but your legacy is a deep and appreciated gift.
Sunny

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On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 8:15 PM McCabe, Diann A via Dialogue <dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net<mailto:dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net>> wrote:

When we moved into the Atlanta House in 1973, Bill Norton was someone with eyes wide open, a ready laugh, and a singing voice that carried us through the days. Journey on, Bill, journey on.--Diann McCabe

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Bill Norton stories: I was with Bill during the early 80s in Kenya working on the New Village Movement. At that time we had 350 Kenyan ‘blue shirt’ staff and impacted 1,500 villages across all of Kenya. We had staff all over Kenya and great support from a variety of amazing donors. One of our best supporters was Goran Hyden of the Ford Foundation who was also on the Board of Sweden SIDA (Swedish International Development  Cooperation Agency).

Hyden thought the best hope for a major grant was to do an in depth study of the ICA’s impact, so Ford gave us $50,000 to do such a study. We hired a University of Nairobi professor to do the study. There were control villages matched with our New Village Movement Villages. We did a baseline study using the Professor’s graduate students for the field studies and entering the data in the University’s computers.  After a year we were ready to go back and collect the new data to measure the change in Behavior, knowledge and attitudes. But the University professor said he had spent the money and needed more money.

Obviously, we were in trouble. Bill Norton stepped up and said I can do it. I have the computer back ground and willing to go out to these villages. I can coordinate with our staff the collection of new data and then put in the data and run the significant difference test off the University’s computer. In 3 months Bill had the work done with amazing results.  Thanks, Bill.

Dick Alton

On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 6:51 AM Karen Snyder via Dialogue <dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net<mailto:dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net>> wrote:

Light a candle for Catherine Pierce

September 16, 1949 – December 29, 2018 – Jacksonville, FL

Karen Snyder writes about Catherine Pierce

I have been a ‘friend’ of Catherine’s through Facebook, seeing her postings of her family and social engagement in the past few years. Her daughter Rosa writes, “Catherine had the most incredible mind, body, and soul.”   Colleagues on the march write multiple postings including, “Activist for peace and justice everywhere …. One of Jacksonville’s activist superstars, who had nothing but love and kindness for all she met … We are better for knowing you and for the time you spent fighting for justice to make our world a better place for all."

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Light a candle for Bill Norton

December 15, 1945 - December 29, 2018  -  Bellingham, WA

Leah Early shares her thoughts thru a poem she wrote and an Aboriginal poem she shared:

In acknowledging the death of Bill Norton, these thoughts visit me:

Bill is not someone I was assigned with in a place of raw possibilities.
I was never close enough to feel vibrations from his singing, nor did I
wash dishes with him amid steaming water and clanging dish trays.
We shared no late night security sessions, no sweaty cleanup days.
But I knew wherever Bill was,
he broke bread and spilled wine.

Across a very crowded room, I caught a wide smile and dancing eyes.
And from great distances through Religious House reports,
we were introduced again and again.
I knew the Nortons were part of our community—the us
living precariously between no-longer and not-yet--and
as was true for all living things, Bill’s life was precious.

>From Bee Lake, an Aboriginal poet:

Forever Oneness,
who sings to us in silence,
who teaches us through each other.
Guide my steps with strength and wisdom.
May I see the lessons as I walk,
honor the Purpose of all things.
Help me touch with respect,
always speak from behind my eyes.
Let me observe, not judge.
May I cause no harm,
and leave music and beauty after my visit.
When I return to forever
may the circle be closed
and the spiral be broader.
Amen.

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