[Oe List ...] [Dialogue] The old Order passing away

LAURELCG at aol.com LAURELCG at aol.com
Wed Sep 26 22:58:27 PDT 2012 

Thanks, Susan. Fascinating.
 
Love and blessings,
Jann
 
 
In a message dated 9/26/2012 10:05:56 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
susan at gmdtech.com writes:

 
Jann,  I sent an email a few days ago referencing the book you’re talking  
about—Ellery had loaned it to me and I was wishing I had made a copy of it  
before returning it to her, because it is not available from any source.   
Jon, do you remember the name of it?  The cover was black and red, and I  
believe the title was something about betrayal.  Jann, you’re right, they  did 
not get out right away.  They were on the island of Mindanao, and my  
parents were on the island of Panay, where I was born in ’44 after my mother  had 
been in hiding in the jungle for several years.  I believe Ellery got  out 
by submarine on the USS Narwhal in ’43.  We got out by submarine when  I was 
3 months old the following year and then went back right after the war  (I 
grew up in the Philippines). Ellery might have known another girl from  
Mindanao who has just written a book about her parents’ and her own WWII  
experience, called Guerrilla Daughter (the author, Ginger Hanson  Holmes, is a 
close friend of mine; her dad and teen age brothers served in the  Mindanao 
guerrillas under my uncle, Wendell Fertig).  
The  game you are talking about is actually a Philippine folk dance called  
Tinikling.  It is patterned after the movements of the  Tikling bird as its 
long legs move in and out of fish traps in the  water. 
 
Susan 
We  have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the 
power of  government, far from it. We've staked the future of all our political 
 institutions upon our capacity... to sustain ourselves according to the 
Ten  Commandments of God. (James Madison, 1778 to the General Assembly of the 
State  of Virginia)
 
 
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In  the San Francisco House, 1970-71, Ellery acquired some bamboo poles and 
taught  the kids a Philippino game kind of like jump rope, but jumping 
between the  poles as they were clapped together in rhythm. She was very good at 
 it.
 

 
I  believe she and her parents didn't get  evacuated for 2 or 3  years 
after the war broke out. They were hidden from the occupying  Japanese army by 
local folks in the crawl space under the house until  smuggled out on a 
submarine and taken to Ayers Rock (?) in Australia. Maybe  Jon can elaborate. I 
believe her father wrote a book about  it.
 

 
I  feel privileged to have been acquainted with these two  heroines.
 

 
Jann  McGuire  
 

 
 
In a  message dated 9/26/2012 8:02:44 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, 
_dpat23 at msn.com_ (mailto:dpat23 at msn.com)   writes:

 
I  remember Ellery's talking about having lived in the Philippines as a 
high  school girl. (Her dad was a missionary and they were evacuated when WWII  
broke out.)  When she  was assigned to Manila, she thought the  Tagalog 
language she had been fluent in would come back to her fairly  easily. She was 
very frustrated to find that it was gone and not coming  back. About 6 
months in to her assignment, she had been doing development in  Manila and was 
exhausted. She got on the bus to go home and wanted nothing  much more than a 
good nap. But the women just behind her would not let that  happen. They 
kept yammering away about the most stupid and trivial things:  their kids and 
their squabbles, the troubles in their marriages, and other  nonsense. Ellery 
was furious; why couldn't these women shut up and let her  sleep?  
 
Suddenly,  she realized that the women were speaking Tagalog and she was 
understanding  every word.  She was so tired that she had lost all her 
inhibitions and  the Tagalog that lay just beneath her conscious mind came out. So 
from then  on, she both understood and spoke Tagalog  fluently.
 
She  had a great time telling this story  on  herself.
 
Pat 
 
  
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From:  _sunwalker at comcast.net_ (mailto:sunwalker at comcast.net) 
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Date:  Wed, 26 Sep 2012 11:49:46 -0600
Subject: [Dialogue] The old Order passing  away 
 
First,  a reflection on Ellery – as a young and inexperienced Global Prior, 
Ellery  was one of the ones who was gracious enough to let me learn from my 
mistakes  without rancor and yet with continued nourishing support. Just 
her face was  a human support mechanism. She spiritually nourished me and we 
rarely even  spoke. And with mortality on my mind as so many saints are 
called home,  knowing you have gone with God, I will let go a bit of the 
anticipation of  my own return. 
For  Carol, while there are many, many memories: one that popped to the top 
was  the time we were at the IERD in Delhi and had boarded the VERY tiny 
elevator  on the top floor (about the 22nd as I recall) of the hotel where  we 
were housed. We pushed the button for the ground floor and about a third  
of the way down, the elevator shuddered to a stop and the door opened…on a  
brick wall. Well, I was a little claustrophobic and unaware that Carol was  
extremely claustrophobic. That hour waiting to be rescued (it could have  
been 15 minutes, but seemed like SEVERAL hours) was revealing of the  wondrous 
woman of steel (Superman move over) who kept us breathing and  laughing to 
avoid injuring ourselves in the mad panic of fear that sets in  when you MUST 
get OUT and you cannot. Clearly our circumstances were not our  problem. 
While in “Heaven,” do a few cartwheels for me, my dear, as I know  we both 
would enjoy them. 
Sunny 
Sunny Walker   
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Aurora,  CO 
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Proverb 


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