[Oe List ...] [Dialogue] Recent article in Chicago Magazine

Mon Mar 26 07:56:25 PDT 2018

Thanks to all for these stories.  A whole book could be written just on comings and goings.  I feel certain that everyone would have stories to offer.

One of my most memorable was flying into Chicago from Zambia and being delayed by a coup in the Seychelles.  We had been lost track of and arrived in a blizzard with no winter gear only to discover that no one was on the way to get us.  We were told to bring a taxi to 4750 and were assured that someone would be in the lobby with money for the fare.  It was late evening so it didn’t quite work out that way, just as the whole journey hadn’t that time around.  The girls showing up looking blue from the cold helped move things along.

Problem? No.  Another great story? Yes.

From: OE [mailto:oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Lynda C via OE
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Ken, thank you for this delightful story.  Phil Townley was our RS-I teacher along with Marilyn Miller, now Oyler,  back in 1968.  And Joyce Townley was one of the gracious ladies in her colorful smock smiling and greeting and helping us find our way when we arrived.  

And you, Ken, (and Paige) were the ones who came to pick us up at the O’Hare airport in March 1969 in a blinding snowstorm. You told us to look for someone with a black beret with a wedgeblade on it and that Paige would have wedgeblade earrings.  I think we told you to look for someone with a black eye patch carrying a little red-headed baby.  Also to look for someone looking “lost and scared” because we had never traveled beyond the Mason-Dixie line before.  

We celebrate the journey of the past 49 years and all who guided us on the way.

Lynda and John

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Date: Friday, March 23, 2018 at 10:36 PM
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Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] [Dialogue] Recent article in Chicago Magazine

Colleagues 'in the way',

I have told this story a few times. 

Following my cataclysmic RS1 in October of ’67 [David McCleskey - Dick & Linda Alton were POs (Participant Observers)], I attended an SDS (Students of a Democratic Society) conference in Chicago that December. I was a leader in the Canadian equivalent, SUPA (Student’s Union for Peace Action). After the conference, I visited 3444 Congress Parkway for a day. I was met by Tim Lush and taken on a tour. A significant part of that time occurred in the basement, where the trash got taken out. There, I met a very fashionable women by the name of Joyce Townley. She was obviously a suburbanite, covered with a smock, but with a colourful scarf and blouse. What a charming woman! And there she was, operating a hoist with oil barrels full of trash.

At that time, immersed in the 60s, as a committed socialist, agent of change and one engaged in many aspects of 60s politics and social change, I knew that part of the puzzle depended on the engagement of sophisticated middle class folks if real change were to occur. It wasn’t simply going to be a revolution of the oppressed.

And there she was! For me it was a sign. I returned May 29, 1968.

Here’s to Joyce Townley the grandmother.

With warmth and affection and…

Grace & Peace

Ken

On Mar 15, 2018, at 1:31 PM, James Wiegel via Dialogue <dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

 <http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/March-2018/Growing-Up-in-the-Order/> Growing Up in the Order

Growing Up in the Order

Now all but forgotten, an obscure religious commune took over a building in Uptown and tried to change the world...

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