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

Mon Mar 26 08:30:58 PDT 2018

The stories are wonderful. Would love to have volunteer(s) from the
listserv work on compiling the treasure trove of stories. *Everyday Wonder,
from Kansas to Kenya from Ecuador to Ethiopia *by Kaze Gadway and Priscilla
Wilson is a gem of a book and a model for pulling together life stories.
Perhaps there are colleagues at this very moment with a book(s) lurking in
their imaginations. Go for it! Love Margaret's *Comings and Goings* image.
Sounds like a book title to me.

On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 9:56 AM, Margaret Aiseayew via OE <
oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

> 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.
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> 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.
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> Problem? No.  Another great story? Yes.
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> *From:* OE [mailto:oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net] *On Behalf Of *Lynda
> C via OE
> *Sent:* Sunday, March 25, 2018 2:55 PM
> *To:* Order Ecumenical Community
> *Cc:* Lynda C
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> *Subject:* Re: [Oe List ...] [Dialogue] Recent article in Chicago Magazine
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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.
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> 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.
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> We celebrate the journey of the past 49 years and all who guided us on the
> way.
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> Lynda and John
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> *From: *OE <oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net> on behalf of OE List <
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> *Reply-To: *OE List <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> *Date: *Friday, March 23, 2018 at 10:36 PM
> *To: *Jim and Judy Weigle <jfwiegel at yahoo.com>, ICA Dialogue List <
> dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> *Cc: *Ken Fisher <kenfisher1942 at gmail.com>, OE List <
> oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>, Judith Wiegel <judithwiegel at yahoo.com>
> *Subject: *Re: [Oe List ...] [Dialogue] Recent article in Chicago Magazine
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> Colleagues 'in the way',
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> I have told this story a few times.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> And there she was! For me it was a sign. I returned May 29, 1968.
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> Here’s to Joyce Townley the grandmother.
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> With warmth and affection and…
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> Grace & Peace
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> Ken
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> On Mar 15, 2018, at 1:31 PM, James Wiegel via Dialogue <
> dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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> Growing Up in the Order
> <http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/March-2018/Growing-Up-in-the-Order/>
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> Growing Up in the Order
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> Now all but forgotten, an obscure religious commune took over a building
> in Uptown and tried to change the world...
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> Jim Wiegel <http://partnersinparticipation.com/?page_id=123>
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> the flame which consumes man, earth, and sky."  Nikos Kazantzakis
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