[Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical

Fri Jun 1 12:12:42 PDT 2012

A great privilege I remember was being in 5th City for Thanksgiving,  1975, 
when neighborhood colleagues came to help prepare the feast. I  learned how 
to make genuine candied sweet potatoes. We had so much fun, cooking  and 
laughing. 

A teenager heated her metal comb on a burner. The smell of singed hair as  
she used it is still vivid.

Caught a glimpse of Ruth Carter in the 50/50 ICA video we saw at the  
Hamiltons. What a marvelous model of womanhood. Is anyone in touch with  her?

My condolences to Robert Schropshire's family. Seems like it was his  Ur 
lecture that so addressed my life when I was on the Academy staff, spring  
'74. He certainly didn't fit into any stereotype.

Blessings on this community as we "gather at the river."

Jann McGuire

In a message dated 6/1/2012 8:22:53 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
mardavscott at gmail.com writes:

Phylis  Christmas

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Nancy Lanphear  <nancy at songaia.com> wrote:
> Dear Ones,
>
> Our common  memory is such a gift.  Each of us can let go of some of our
>  worry about loosing our own.  Thanks for sharing your memories with  me.
>
> Love,
>
> Nancy
>
>
> On  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:48 AM, E B <marosel2000 at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>>
>> Who can forget Dawn Lingo and Lynette  Shanklin?
>>
>> ________________________________
>>  From: Mary Laura Jones <mljones2022 at gmail.com>
>> To: Order  Ecumenical Community <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
>> Sent: Friday,  June 1, 2012 9:37 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the  Order Ecumenical
>>
>> I learned so much from Lois Reeves  and Emma Melton in the Cleveland
>> Region. I am so grateful for  their presence in our lives. Many things 
they
>> said still make  me smile. Their wisdom and leadership were very 
important
>>  in the ICA's work.
>>
>> Mary Laura  Jones
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:12 AM, McCabe, Diann A  <dm14 at txstate.edu> 
wrote:
>>
>> Sharon Turner stands  out for me. Vincent Scott and Mary. And deep
>> colleague in  Mississippi, the late Ruth Wilson.
>>
>> Diann  McCabe
>>
>>
>>
>> On 6/1/12 8:17 AM,  "Nancy Lanphear" <nancy at songaia.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear  Randy,
>>
>> I, too would appreciate hearing some of the  stories about what it was 
like
>> to be black in the Order.  I  remember Phoebe Reynolds, Christine 
Harris, and
>> some of the  children  .... Tad and Todd Mueller, Eric Shropshire, Adam  
and
>> Kaira Lingo, Emanuel Ward, Kevin Woodward   ... I am  sorry , who are the
>> others who have slipped through my memory  ...?  Thank you Joyce and 
Randy
>>
>>  Nancy
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:55 AM, R Williams  <rcwmbw at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Joyce,
>>
>> Your brief comment, in  remembering Robert Shropshire, about what it was
>> like  to be black and to have been in the O:E has me wanting to hear  
more
>> about what that experience was like, and trying  to
>> recall our black Order colleagues prior to  our being dispersed around 
the
>> globe, embracing cultures of  color everywhere.
>>
>> In addition to you, Carlos and  Shropshire, I remember Larry Ward, Nadine
>> Ward, Harold  Williams and Richard whose last name was, I think, Epson.
>>  Other faces are pictured in my mind's eye whose names I cannot  recall. 
 Who
>> were they?
>>
>> My interest  is peaked by the fact that the white majority, in the U.S at
>>  least, is shrinking and will likely soon no longer exist, combined  
with the
>> fact that there is a glimmer of indication that  cultural diversity of 
all
>> kinds is coming to be not only  tolerated but embraced by more and more
>>  people.
>>
>> On behalf of the future, with an eye toward  how all people
>> may live together in peace on  this flat, increasingly diverse and 
crowded
>>  planet, I would love to hear more of your reflections, as well as those 
 of
>> others, on what it was like then to be black and in the  O:E and what, 
with
>> 50 years of experience behind  us, we all have learned.
>>
>> A  conversation like this could be a fitting tribute to Robert,  Nadine,
>> Harold and others now departed who have impacted our  community
>> and consciousness over the  years.
>>
>> Randy
>>
>> "Listen to what  is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the
>> world; not  to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it 
desires."
>>  -Martin Buber (adapted)
>>
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