<DIV style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt;"><DIV>I met Marcella at a summer program - either '70 or '71. Her team met in the tunnel between Facualty East andFacaulty West. Things were going well except between her and a white man whose name I have forgotten. Then one night they were have=ng House Church or some kind of celebration and the wine was being pasted around the table. This guy refused to pass it to Marcella. He reached past her and gave it to the next person. She told me later that it was all she could do to reframe from grabbing th bottle, breaking the end off on the edge of the table and going after him. She remebered the Tillich paper - where sin abounds grace does more abound. Gracefully, she stayed cool and calm. Needless to say, she never sat next to him again.</DIV>
<DIV> <BR><BR>-David Walters<BR><BR>Diane McCabe wrote:<BR><BR>Realize I left Marcella off the list I sent earlier—She was a force of beauty, strength, and humor in the Atlanta House in 74 or so. Went to Nairobi after that and returned to live in D.C. Is married and has beautiful daughters.--Diann McCabe</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>I have a name in my head that I can't quite put a face with. Does the name <U>Marcella</U> <U>Buchanan</U>, or something like that, ring a bell with anyone?</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; MIN-HEIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> James Wiegel <<A href="mailto:jfwiegel@yahoo.com">jfwiegel@yahoo.com</A>><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Order Ecumenical Community <<A href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</A>> <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> Order Ecumenical Community <<A href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</A>> <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Saturday, June 2, 2012 12:03 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical<BR></FONT></DIV><BR>You sang on the bus all the way to the Bahamas ? Wow.<BR><BR>Jim Wiegel<BR><A href="mailto:Jfwiegel@yahoo.com">Jfwiegel@yahoo.com</A><BR><BR>I can't say as I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. Daniel Boone<BR><BR><BR>On Jun 1, 2012, at 18:25, "Ann Shafer" <<A href="mailto:asgoodasitgets@hughes.net">asgoodasitgets@hughes.net</A>> wrote:<BR><BR>> And I so enjoyed working with everyone in Fifth City but most especially<BR>> Velma Brocks who is my daughter, Catherine's, godmother. Velma could say so<BR>> much without saying anything. She and I handled the Fifth City payroll for<BR>> awhile. Plus David and I had a wonderful time on the Fifth City to the World<BR>> trip to the Bahamas so beautifully enabled and spiritized by Alice and Jim<BR>> Baumbach. Remember Peggy who led the singing on our bus all the way there<BR>> and back? I know the Fifth Citizens were not O:E but they were our<BR>> colleagues and mentors. Ann Stewart Shafer<BR>> <BR>> -----Original Message-----<BR>> From: <A href="mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net</A><BR>> [mailto:<A href="mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net</A>] On Behalf Of David Scott<BR>> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 10:23 AM<BR>> To: Order Ecumenical Community<BR>> Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical<BR>> <BR>> Phylis Christmas<BR>> <BR>> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Nancy Lanphear <<A href="mailto:nancy@songaia.com">nancy@songaia.com</A>> wrote:<BR>>> Dear Ones,<BR>>> <BR>>> Our common memory is such a gift. Each of us can let go of some of <BR>>> our worry about loosing our own. Thanks for sharing your memories with<BR>> me.<BR>>> <BR>>> Love,<BR>>> <BR>>> Nancy<BR>>> <BR>>> <BR>>> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:48 AM, E B <<A href="mailto:marosel2000@yahoo.com">marosel2000@yahoo.com</A>> wrote:<BR>>>> <BR>>>> Who can forget Dawn Lingo and Lynette Shanklin?<BR>>>> <BR>>>> ________________________________<BR>>>> From: Mary Laura Jones <<A href="mailto:mljones2022@gmail.com">mljones2022@gmail.com</A>><BR>>>> To: Order Ecumenical Community <<A href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</A>><BR>>>> Sent: Friday, June 1, 2012 9:37 AM<BR>>>> Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical<BR>>>> <BR>>>> I learned so much from Lois Reeves and Emma Melton in the Cleveland <BR>>>> Region. I am so grateful for their presence in our lives. Many things <BR>>>> they said still make me smile. Their wisdom and leadership were very <BR>>>> important in the ICA's work.<BR>>>> <BR>>>> Mary Laura Jones<BR>>>> <BR>>>> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:12 AM, McCabe, Diann A <<A href="mailto:dm14@txstate.edu">dm14@txstate.edu</A>> wrote:<BR>>>> <BR>>>> Sharon Turner stands out for me. Vincent Scott and Mary. And deep <BR>>>> colleague in Mississippi, the late Ruth Wilson.<BR>>>> <BR>>>> Diann McCabe<BR>>>> <BR>>>> <BR>>>> <BR>>>> On 6/1/12 8:17 AM, "Nancy Lanphear" <<A href="mailto:nancy@songaia.com">nancy@songaia.com</A>> wrote:<BR>>>> <BR>>>> Dear Randy,<BR>>>> <BR>>>> I, too would appreciate hearing some of the stories about what it was <BR>>>> like to be black in the Order. I remember Phoebe Reynolds, Christine <BR>>>> Harris, and some of the children .... Tad and Todd Mueller, Eric <BR>>>> Shropshire, Adam and Kaira Lingo, Emanuel Ward, Kevin Woodward ... <BR>>>> I am sorry , who are the others who have slipped through my memory <BR>>>> ...? Thank you Joyce and Randy<BR>>>> <BR>>>> Nancy<BR>>>> <BR>>>> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:55 AM, R Williams <<A href="mailto:rcwmbw@yahoo.com">rcwmbw@yahoo.com</A>> wrote:<BR>>>> <BR>>>> Joyce,<BR>>>> <BR>>>> Your brief comment, in remembering Robert Shropshire, about what it <BR>>>> was like to be black and to have been in the O:E has me wanting to <BR>>>> hear more about what that experience was like, and trying to recall <BR>>>> our black Order colleagues prior to our being dispersed around the <BR>>>> globe, embracing cultures of color everywhere.<BR>>>> <BR>>>> In addition to you, Carlos and Shropshire, I remember Larry Ward, <BR>>>> Nadine Ward, Harold Williams and Richard whose last name was, I think,<BR>> Epson.<BR>>>> Other faces are pictured in my mind's eye whose names I cannot <BR>>>> recall. Who were they?<BR>>>> <BR>>>> My interest is peaked by the fact that the white majority, in the U.S <BR>>>> at least, is shrinking and will likely soon no longer exist, combined <BR>>>> with the fact that there is a glimmer of indication that cultural <BR>>>> diversity of all kinds is coming to be not only tolerated but <BR>>>> embraced by more and more people.<BR>>>> <BR>>>> On behalf of the future, with an eye toward how all people may live <BR>>>> together in peace on this flat, increasingly diverse and crowded <BR>>>> planet, I would love to hear more of your reflections, as well as <BR>>>> those of others, on what it was like then to be black and in the O:E <BR>>>> and what, with<BR>>>> 50 years of experience behind us, we all have learned.<BR>>>> <BR>>>> A conversation like this could be a fitting tribute to Robert, <BR>>>> Nadine, Harold and others now departed who have impacted our <BR>>>> community and consciousness over the years.<BR>>>> <BR>>>> Randy<BR>>>> <BR>>>> "Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in <BR>>>> the world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it<BR>> desires."<BR>>>> -Martin Buber (adapted)<BR>>>> <BR>>>> _______________________________________________<BR>>>> OE mailing list<BR>>>> <A href="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net">OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</A><BR>>>> <A href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net</A><BR>>>> <BR>>>> <BR>>>> <BR>>>> <BR>>>> _______________________________________________<BR>>>> OE mailing list<BR>>>> <A href="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net">OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</A><BR>>>> <A href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net</A><BR>>>> <BR>>>> <BR>>>> <BR>>>> _______________________________________________<BR>>>> OE mailing list<BR>>>> <A href="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net">OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</A><BR>>>> <A href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net</A><BR>>>> <BR>>>> <BR>>>> <BR>>>> _______________________________________________<BR>>>> OE mailing list<BR>>>> <A href="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net">OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</A><BR>>>> <A href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net</A><BR>>>> <BR>>> <BR>>> <BR>>> _______________________________________________<BR>>> OE mailing list<BR>>> <A href="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net">OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</A><BR>>> <A href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net</A><BR>>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> --<BR>> Margaret and David Scott<BR>> Flathead Valley College<BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> OE mailing list<BR>> <A href="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net">OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</A><BR>> <A href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net</A><BR>> <BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> OE mailing list<BR>> <A href="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net">OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</A><BR>> <A href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net</A><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>OE mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net">OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</A><BR><A href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net</A><BR><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>OE mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net">OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</A><BR><A href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net</A><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR>
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