<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Hi Judy and Norm,</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span> Thanks for sending this out. Great to see you at Southside (that was you, wasn't it?) in Arizona last winter.</span></div><div><span>I am interested in hearing about Emma Melton's Breakthrough Schools....and wondering if they're conneccted with the</span></div><div>Cleveland Congregations you mentioned. </div><div> </div><div> 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).</div><div> </div><div> Could you send me Emma's email address? I'd also like Brady Melton's email also. </div><div> </div><div>Your celebration sounds like such a wonderful gathering! We're having ours in Minneapolis at Sue & Stefan Laxdal's home on June 16th.</div><div> </div><div> Thanks,</div><div> Joyce Bonafield-Pierce</div><div> <a href="mailto:jcbonafield@yahoo.com">jcbonafield@yahoo.com</a></div><div>
612-578-9597</div><div> </div><div> <br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Norm and Judy Lindblad <nj.lindblad@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Colleague Dialogue <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net>; Order Ecumenical Community <OE@wedgeblade.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, May 23, 2012 9:37 AM<br> <b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Dialogue] Cleveland Region Celebrates 50 for 50<br> </font> </div> <br>
<div id="yiv1500467043"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse;" class="yiv1500467043Apple-style-span"><font face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Sixteen amazing folks - six in the flesh and ten through letters and videos - became a Wall of Wonder </font></span><div>
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse;" class="yiv1500467043Apple-style-span"><font style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">on behalf of the Cleveland Region on Saturday, May 19, 2012, in Hamilton, OH celebrating EI/ICA's 50th Anniversary. *</font></span></div>
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<font face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Those present included: Emma Melton, Cleveland; Ann Antenen our host at her Berkeley Square Community in Hamilton; and Myra Griffin,</font></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
<font face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">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".</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><font face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><font face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">An <i>In Memorium</i> table bore the pictures of deceased colleagues Jay Antenen, Anita Gibson, and Barbara Barkony. </font></div>
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<font face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">As we sang "Believe - That The Time Has Come" we marvelled at how contemporary the words felt in our mouths. </font></div></span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse;" class="yiv1500467043Apple-style-span"><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
<font face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Our song sheet is available if you're interested or curious.</font></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><font face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><font face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Memories were shared from EG (Emerging Generation) adventures to Global Odysseys, and amazing, urgent requests for funds and faithful responses. </font><span> 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 </span><span>Meditative Council. </span><span>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.
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<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><font face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><font face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">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. </font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><font face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><font face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">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. </font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><font face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">In closing we again affirmed that<b> "These Are The Times and We Are The People"!</b></font></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
<font face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><font face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif"><b>*Pictures will follow in separate e-mail.</b></font></div>
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