[Oe List ...] [Dialogue] Chronological History - Editing with David Dunn for 2nd Edition

Tue May 23 15:48:39 PDT 2017

Thank you to everyone who is adding material.

On May 23, 2017 3:52 PM, "Susan Fertig" <sfertig at blueskytech.us> wrote:

> I don’t know if this is relevant or not, but here is some ICA history that
> may not be part of the record.
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> In Zagreb, Croatia, in 1993, Susan Yates and I established both ICA
> Croatia and FYI Ltd. (Fertig Yates International), the former as an NGO or
> non-profit and the latter as a commercial organization doing the same thing
> as ICA only for commercial customers. One of the notable FYI clients was
> the Intercontinental Hotel in Zagreb, for which we did strategic planning
> and then, after Susan Yates left ICA and FYI, I did a 6-month followup
> using the Wall of Wonder to assess their progress on the strategic planning
> and to lead into quarterly action planning. ICA Croatia trained about 200
> facilitators from both international and local organizations who were
> working in refugee camps and divided cities. Some of those organizations
> were Red Cross/Red Crescent, American Refugee Committee, International
> Rescue Committee, Save the Children, Marie Stopes International, CARE
> (parent company in Atlanta), and United Methodist Committee on Relief.
> Linda Alton came from Brussels to serve on the faculty for one of our
> trainings. When I left to move to Sarajevo, I turned over the organization
> to Zlata Pavic (whom I’d brought to the U.S. for additional training under
> Sherwood and Eunice Shankland and Laura Spencer) and Drazen Letica, the two
> most skilled of our local ICA trainers. I have lost contact with Drazen,
> but Zlata still occasionally attends European meetings of ICA/IAF I
> believe. The Zagreb team traveled with me to the Global Gathering in
> Lonavala—was that 1994? In 1995 I was one of 5 ICA representatives to
> attend the UN Women’s Conference in Beijing as an official observer
> delegation, and we led a couple of workshops at the shadow conference in
> Huai Roo.
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> In Sarajevo, I established and registered ICA Bosnia in 1996, and a small
> group traveled to the Global Gathering in Egypt that year, where ICA Zagreb
> and ICA Bosnia were ratified. I facilitated a strategic planning that year
> for the 50 staff-members of Bospo, one of the most sophisticated of the
> local indigenous NGOs, and subsequently we partnered with them for our work
> in Bosnia. In 1997 the Oylers asked me to represent the ICA in facilitating
> a strategic planning of 50 regional representatives of UNDP in Moscow, and
> I did so as ICA Bosnia, with a Russian co-facilitator. When I went to work
> for World Vision in 1997, I turned the operation of ICA over to Bospo in
> the capable hands of Slavica Bradvic, now Slavica Bradvic Hanusic, who
> attended training in Phoenix with ICA and whom I continued to mentor until
> I left the region in 1999. At some point since, Bospo separated into two
> organizations, one doing micro-credit and one (under Slavica) doing ToP.
> Slavica has done some amazing work not only in Bosnia but across borders
> into neighboring republics. She can be contacted at slavicabh at gmail.com.
> Local organizations do not make the kind of money that would enable them to
> pay the membership fees that ICA expects, so I doubt ICA Bosnia is still
> considered a formal ICA, and it is operating under another name though
> still under the leadership of Slavica Bradvic Hanusic. That said, it is
> still doing ToP work and is an organization ICA can be proud to have in its
> network.
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> *Susan*
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> Susan Fertig-Dykes
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> *And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in
> drought .  Isaiah 58:11*
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> *From:* OE [mailto:oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net] * On Behalf Of *Janet
> Sanders via OE
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 23, 2017 10:56 AM
> *To:* 'Beret Griffith' <beretgriffith at gmail.com>; 'Order Ecumenical
> Community' <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>; Margaret Aiseayew <
> aiseayew at netins.net>; Colleague Dialogue <dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [Oe List ...] [Dialogue] Chronological History - Editing
> with David Dunn for 2nd Edition
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> Hi Beret, I am catching up on my emails.  While reading a response from
> Margaret I read this note:
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>  Toronto: PEOPLEnergy—Jan Sanders, Ian Gilmore, and (currently) Jeanette
> Stanfield
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> This is the update:
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> Yes, PEOPLEnergy was set up as an ICA self-support business.  It was Ian
> Graham and Jan Sanders--At various times it  hired Bob Rafos, Bill
> Staples, Jo Nelson, Richard Kitney, Deanna Hickey and others as
> consultants. It was launched around 1985. PE joined with Ian Gilmore's
> Technology Transfer on several contracts.
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> PE continues as our self-support vehicle.  Richard Sims and I just
> returned from working at the University of Aruba in a program called
> Education Leadership for Collaboration.  This is a unique collaboration
> betwen the ICA methods and Social Artistry.
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> Is there still time to add to the chronological history?
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> Warmest regards,
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> Janet A. Sanders
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> *From:* Dialogue <dialogue-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net> on behalf of
> Margaret Aiseayew via Dialogue <dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> *Sent:* May 20, 2017 3:50 PM
> *To:* 'Beret Griffith'; 'Order Ecumenical Community'; 'Dialogue'
> *Subject:* Re: [Dialogue] [Oe List ...] Chronological History - Editing
> with David Dunn for 2nd Edition
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> Beret,
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> Chicago had Horizons which took over all of our travel after the fiasco
> with our last ‘travel agent’ who took us to the laundry. Art Smith ran
> Horizons.  I know there was a time when some others worked with him, but I
> can’t remember.  For some reason I am thinking of Laurie and Michael Shaw.
> I don’t think they are on the list and I don’t have a contact but Mary
> Laura does.  It was at that same time that we had a word processing and
> printing operation.  We made money for awhile, but it was not enough to
> keep the whole print shop operational.  Louise Albright was in charge of
> the word processing company, Access Unlimited.  After her heart attack I
> worked there for a couple of years.  Vivian Paul was our liaison in the
> print shop.  All the records for these companies were in the basement of
> Kemper, but may have been thrown out by finance when our tax liabilities
> expired.
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> *From:* OE [mailto:oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net
> <oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net>] *On Behalf Of *Beret Griffith via OE
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 18, 2017 2:33 PM
> *To:* O:E List; Dialogue
> *Subject:* [Oe List ...] Chronological History - Editing with David Dunn
> for 2nd Edition
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> Colleagues: The first go-around we did not get descriptions or number of
> years in business. Please make corrections and/or additions to the text.
> Thanks, Beret & David
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> Page 88 from the Chronological History
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> Staff operated businesses provided staff support:
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> • Bombay: Jack Gilles, Dick and Gail West, and Kevin Balm
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> • Brussels: Ken Whitney—the American Handiman from 1977–1979—with help
> from Clare Whitney, and occasionally Paul Schrijnen, earned enough to pay
> off old bills, pay stipends, and send all staff members to Chicago for
> summer programs (Clare Whitney, July 17, 2015).
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> • Chicago: Jim Troxel,
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>  • Hong Kong: Dan Tuecke,
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>  • Houston: Tim Wegner,
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>  • Los Angeles: Milan and Linda Hamilton founded Food For All to raise
> funds for anti-hunger projects. See www.mellowmilan.blogspot.com
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> Mellow Milan's Musings <http://www.mellowmilan.blogspot.com/>
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> www.mellowmilan.blogspot.com
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> A combination of life vignettes, photos, poems, short stories, and wisdom
> (hopefully) from more than seven decades of living. These are offered for
> family and friends and anyone else who may happen to be interested.
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> • Sydney
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>  • New York: Scott and Doris Morris and others did programming,
> consulting, and training as Computer Paradigm.
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>  • Toronto: PEOPLEnergy—Jan Sanders, Ian Gilmore, and (currently) Jeanette
> Stanfield
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> • Washington, DC: Stan Crow, and Linda and Lester Knudsen sold Kaypro
> computers and did programming, consulting, and training as Computer
> Paradigm.
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