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Dear Colleagues, <br>
<br>
Larry and I were married in Nairobi Kenya and our two children Lloyd
and Lela were both born in Nairobi. Infact, Lloyd Philbrook could
speak greetings in Kiswahili, Kikamba, Kikuyu and probably Kiluyo
and other languages taught to him by HDTI participants while living
in Kamweleni, Kenya...as well as English when he was only two or
three having been born in the Nairobi hospital and living in Kenya
most of his life. When I asked why he did not speak those languages
to me, he said, you speak English to me. I took him back to Kemper
in the summer and he trusted the black staff as a toddler in day
care, or so it seemed to me. I don't remember her name, may be it
was Phybee, but we had a black staff working in the preschool at
Kemper and I always found Lloyd with her when I picked him up. She
said when he woke up from nap he would always come and sit on her
lap so they became good friends.<br>
<br>
<br>
My mom and sisters volunteered to care for him and I sent him with
Ray Spencer and Jill Egland to Los Angeles (if memory serves me
correctly) and he went with them without hesitation too.He was
preoccupied with water and electricity in California. He wanted to
know where it came from and where was the generator and where the
water went instead of to a kitchen garden. My dad laughed when he
showed him the town water tank and the huge pump from the ground and
the the sewer drain at the curb in front of the house. Once he ran
around the house looking for a jerrycan (20 liter plastic
container) when it rained because we always collected all the rain
water and stored it in jerrycans in Kamweleni. My parents were
bemused and puzzled. He did not know what to do with a hamburger at
McDonalds. He took it apart and ate the meat, but not the bread. He
called french fries chips because we would once in a while go to
Machakos town for sausage and chips. But he did not eat cold cereal
with milk. My mother called me and asked what he ate. I answered
everything. Then she told me what he was doing. So I told her to
make him soupy grits with milk and butter for breakfast and make all
his food like a stew. She called back later to say he loved the
grits and bread with peanut butter and the stew works just fine. I
told her he eats any kind of cooked egg, but I usually scrambled it.
He will drink milk at room temperature or warmed and mangos or
bananas. He called ice cream hot as a temperature because never had
anything frozen before. He loved the refrigerator with ice cubes and
water coming out of the door.<br>
<br>
I think he knew more black people than white people while growing
up, but we had plenty of folks around the training center and
Nairobi, Filipinos, Indians from India, British, Caucasian
Americans, Afro Americans, and Japanese American. <br>
<br>
Lela grew up in the Philippines and Malaysia as a toddler and
attended most of her education in Taiwan. But both Lloyd and Lela
knew the Kemper building as their second home with built in cousins
with the Philbrook/Otto family in residence most every summer. <br>
<br>
<br>
Remember the African contingent that came to USA for that summer
program in Kemper! OMG, Benadetta, a girl from Machakos who ran a
race in Chicago barefoot and won. David Mbulu who lives in Scotland
now, or Sam and Ester Were, or Issac Kariuki, or Joshua or Henry...
the hundreds of faces and names who appear like it was yesterday as
the New Village Movement. <br>
<br>
We really were the rainbow coalition before that term came into
being for which I am always grateful. <br>
<br>
What does it mean to be a global presence now? <br>
I still try to think global and act locally when I build models or
constructs in training. How would you work in China? <br>
<br>
Hope to see y'all in Nepal this year!<br>
<br>
Evelyn Kurihara Philbrook <br>
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On 6/4/2012 2:09 AM, McCabe, Diann A wrote:
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<div>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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<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span> Order
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<div><font color="#000000"><font><font face="comic sans
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 11:54 AM, R
Williams <span dir="ltr">
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york,times,serif">
<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>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span>Randy</span></div>
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<div>"Listen to what is emerging from yourself to
the course of being in the world; not to be
supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it
desires."<br>
-Martin Buber (adapted)<br>
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style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b>
James Wiegel <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b>
Saturday, June 2, 2012 12:03 PM<br>
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Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order
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<br>
You sang on the bus all the way to the Bahamas
? Wow.<br>
<br>
Jim Wiegel<br>
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<br>
I can't say as I was ever lost, but I was
bewildered once for three days. Daniel Boone<br>
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On Jun 1, 2012, at 18:25, "Ann Shafer" <<a
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wrote:<br>
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> 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 moz-do-not-send="true"
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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 moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:nancy@songaia.com"
target="_blank">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 moz-do-not-send="true"
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target="_blank">marosel2000@yahoo.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
>>> <br>
>>> Who can forget Dawn Lingo and
Lynette Shanklin?<br>
>>> <br>
>>> ________________________________<br>
>>> From: Mary Laura Jones <<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:mljones2022@gmail.com"
target="_blank">mljones2022@gmail.com</a>><br>
>>> To: Order Ecumenical Community <<a
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href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net"
target="_blank">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 moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:dm14@txstate.edu" target="_blank">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 moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:nancy@songaia.com"
target="_blank">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 moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:rcwmbw@yahoo.com" target="_blank">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>
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turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns
denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to
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