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

[James Wiegel]

You sang on the bus all the way to the Bahamas ?  Wow.

Jim Wiegel
Jfwiegel at yahoo.com

I can't say as I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.  Daniel Boone


On Jun 1, 2012, at 18:25, "Ann Shafer" <asgoodasitgets at hughes.net> wrote:

> And I so enjoyed working with everyone in Fifth City but most especially
> Velma Brocks who is my daughter, Catherine's, godmother. Velma could say so
> much without saying anything. She and I handled the Fifth City payroll for
> awhile. Plus David and I had a wonderful time on the Fifth City to the World
> trip to the Bahamas so beautifully enabled and spiritized by Alice and Jim
> Baumbach. Remember Peggy who led the singing on our bus all the way there
> and back? I know the Fifth Citizens were not O:E but they were our
> colleagues and mentors. Ann Stewart Shafer
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of David Scott
> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 10:23 AM
> To: Order Ecumenical Community
> Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical
> 
> 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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