<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b>ARCHIVES SOJOURN REPORT <o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b>Quarter IV - December 26, 2022 – January 1, 2023<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Written by Alan Gammel and Karen Snyder<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b> </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i>“In recovering abundance, we need storytellers and memory keepers <o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i>who work to uncover all our stories and histories. It’s nice to know where we came from,<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i> but it’s also critical for our wholeness as communities and our sense of direction moving forward.”<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b>Recovering Abundance: Twelve Practices for Small-Town Leaders</b>, by Andy Stanton-Henry (2022), p. 252<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.120001px;">For the week following Christmas, ten people participated in the Archives Sojourn as ‘archivists’ with others joining on zoom for the daily morning context, that included readings, reports of what had been accomplished, and anticipations of the days work. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.120001px;">Amazing results:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="line-height: 17.120001px; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 17.120001px;">Sorting files for scanning: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">o<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>We revisited Uptown, rediscovered ICA’s engagement in the 70s – including sponsoring eight Valentine Balls for seniors at The Aragon Ballroom. Twenty-five hundred people attended the last ball. The ICA staff working in Uptown approached it like 5<sup>th</sup> City, like a human development project as it created stakes and guilds and multiple programs. See the end of this document for Vincent Scott’s draft of the “Uptown Story” and Alan Gammel‘s description of the Valentine dances.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">o<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>We remembered stories from the six Latin American Human Development projects – almost simultaneously: Bananeras, Brazil; Sol de Septiembre, Chile; Conacaste, Guatemala; Woburn Lawn, Jamaica; Azpitia, Peru; Cano Negro, Venezuela.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">o<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>India’s three file cabinets of documents revealed many learnings from replicating the Maliwada Human Development throughout the State of Maharashta. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="line-height: 17.120001px; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 17.120001px;">Ed Feldmanis has been the Master of Scanning, before, during and after the sojourn, turning past documents into readable messages for all.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="line-height: 17.120001px; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 17.120001px;">A flowchart was created to aid in training of first time sorters in future sojourns – by Debra Harris Watson, Meg Ziegleman, and Rebecca Mahan. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="line-height: 17.120001px; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 17.120001px;">Alan Gammel learned how to link scanned documents that he will continue to do in Seattle. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="line-height: 17.120001px; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 17.120001px;">A writing team was initiated committed to meeting periodically between now and the next Archive Sojourn (July 23 – August 5, 2023).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt 0.5in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="line-height: 17.120001px; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 17.120001px;">Zoom calls included Beret Griffith, Paul Noah and Laura Grover. Beret and Laura both had health issues that prevented them from traveling this time. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.120001px;">Sorting, scanning, linking were enhanced by lively questioning about the future of the archives. How can we use social media more effectively to inform a wider audience? What are the transforming stories hidden in the documentation? How can we add pictures to enhance all the written material? What did we learn as we worked through the years that is informative to our present time? There was a challenge to complete the file sorting before 2024.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.120001px;">All work and… Of course not! Christmas lights at the Lincoln Park Zoo New Year’s Eve Fiesta at the Troxel’s New Year’s Special Brunch by Alice Harriott - were highlights of our time together. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.120001px;">In the end a group of strangers with different experiences over the past 60 years were surprised and delighted by all the things ICA has done and continues to do. Whether we sojourned in a Religious House, were Priors, participated in Human Development Projects or an Odyssey, were ToP trainers, lived in the GreenRise, served on the ICA USA Board, the feeling of kinship, of community, was very strong.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="line-height: 17.120001px;">We would love to hear from you regarding what you think needs to happen next in the archives.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.120001px;">The Archivists: Adele Sims, Alan Gammel, Beret Griffith, Debra Harris Watson, Ed Feldmanis, Frances Tsai, Karen Snyder, Laura Grover, Meg Ziegleman, Paul Noah, Rebecca Mahan, Sierra Johnson, Vincente Scott<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693334px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.120001px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i>“The profound function of documentation is to change the world …. Recording, or more specifically, </i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i>documenting victories, accomplishments, campaigns, etc., is essential to providing an objective picture of the present situation, </i><i>what trends are appearing and where the edge is going to be."</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> “Profound Function of Documentation”, Global Research Assembly 1979, page 2<i style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></p></body></html>