<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank-you Jonathan & Janeen,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="B3CF4EFE-A228-49C6-A1A2-AAAF6DCC9BBA" src="cid:2DA5486D-50E4-49CD-B321-A297CA9948B3@Home" class=""> </div><div class="">Jonathan in 2011</div><div class=""><a href="http://canberraregion.unitingchurch.org.au/2011/jonathan-barker-at-kippax-uc/" class="">http://canberraregion.unitingchurch.org.au/2011/jonathan-barker-at-kippax-uc/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We all have our stories. This is a profoundly significant part of mine. To the best of my memory, it unfolded as follows:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In the spring of ’69 I was in charge of ‘Property’ at 3444 West Congress Parkway, looking after 122 units of housing, with their plumbing, electricity and locks. It was very exciting to lend an Order vehicle to Gene Beasley and have to steal it back from him the following week! JWM was on ‘sabbatical’, the public story being that he was getting his teeth fixed. Slicker was in charge.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I had some Property issues I wanted to discuss with him and made an appointment to see him. He gruffly sat me down and stopped me, before I could get out my list of property issues. “Here’s a book of airline tickets. I want you to go to Canada and set up RS1s across the country.”</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I was shocked and astounded, but immediately began to envisage a trip across my country covering 1000s of miles.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Before coming to Chicago in early May of ’68, I had graduated from Queens’ University in Kingston, Ontario; I was an S.C.M. (Student Christian Movement) staff person and national executive member; and on the national executive of the Student Union for Peace Action (Canada’s Student’s for a Democratic Society). I had also been a candidate for the ministry in the Anglican Church of Canada. Some of my colleagues at that time were Duncan Holmes and Faith Johnson (Vance); and off course, Paige Cousineau.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">With those networks, I began calling my contacts. I also connected with early RS1 grads that I had never met, such as Bev & Hugh Parker, prominent lawyer in Winnipeg; and Stan & Mary Gibson in Peterborough, leftist student activists at Trent University.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Within two weeks I flew to Calgary, Vancouver, Kelowna B.C., Yellowknife N.W.T., Saskatoon, Regina and Winnipeg - all of Western Canada then back to Chicago. By phone, I set up events in Ottawa, and I believe in Peterborough, Toronto, Montreal and Halifax; 22 RS1s in all.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">After more than a year in the unending grey of the West Side Ghetto, I recall the shock of pastel suburbs, flying into my first stop - Calgary! (Pete Seeger’s 'Little Boxes')</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">During July and August, Don Cramer led a team of myself, Paige and for parts of it with Bev & Hugh Parker, from coast-to-coast, delivering those 22 RS1s, setting the stage for the Local Church Experiment and Religious Houses to come.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What a fabulous adventure!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ken</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="CE0D6363-68B3-4012-8671-D57F20FC9180" src="cid:387A9D1E-DDD4-43AE-81A8-F802315A0BCA@Home" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">With Pat, taken by Don Bushman in Lenoir N.C. a year ago.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><div class="">On Apr 2, 2017, at 8:26 PM, J and J Barker via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Colleagues:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I shall have some additions to forward in due course - e.g. the Canada teaching team that did most of that country in the summer of 1969 - no reference that I can see.</div><div class="">The Australian Frontier sponsored program in January 1967 in Sydney was a truly major event - needs to be included.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As a global movement, it makes no sense to us in the Southern hemisphere to refer to the quarters by seasonal names applicable only to the Northern hemisphere!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Grace and Peace</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jonathan Barker </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class="">On 2 Apr 2017, at 5:08 am, Beret Griffith via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Dear Colleagues,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It has been two years since the Chronological History was published. David Dunn and I are starting the revision process.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you have sent corrections and additions we have been saving the emails and notes for the 2nd edition. Please continue to pass on your observations, comments, additions & corrections.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here are links...</div><div class=""><span class="gmail-im" style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class=""> 1. <a href="https://wedgeblade.net/files/archives_assets/20197.pdf" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px" class="">https://wedgeblade.net/files/a<wbr class="">rchives_assets/20197.pdf</a><br class=""></div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class="">Corrections cannot be made directly into the document so please send in another document, electronic, email, or paper. Send paper docs to me at 1412 Blue Flag Court, Northfield, MN. 55057</div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><br class=""></div></span><div style="font-size:12.8px" class="">2. <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y0IgEUDJLGzZJp_DVoZ0ZwE4hiLfZ7inTTTmD9nLEdo/edit" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px" class="">https://docs.google.com/docume<wbr class="">nt/d/1Y0IgEUDJLGzZJp_DVoZ0ZwE4<wbr class="">hiLfZ7inTTTmD9nLEdo/edit</a><div class="gmail-yj6qo gmail-ajU" style="margin:2px 0px 0px"><div id="gmail-:1kb" class="gmail-ajR" tabindex="0"><img class="gmail-ajT" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"></div></div></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">The Addendum is for adding information from 1989-2017. You can comment/add directly into this document.</span><br class=""></div><div class=""> </div><div class="">We look forward to hearing from you!</div><div class="">Beret and David</div></div>
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