60 years later….
On Apr 29, 2022, at 6:58 AM, James Wiegel via Dialogue <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
This from Letter to Laymen (CFLC) in March of 1962 :
I’m not getting so old as to not remember sharing much of this before. We know that the Christian Faith and Life Community had members like Sandra ‘Casey’ Casum Hayden. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Hayden As her Wikipedia entry reveals, she was active in the Student Non-Violent Co-ordinating Committee - working urgently on voter registration in Mississippi. (In Ottawa, I did an AYPA - Anglican Young People’s Association - fundraiser for SNCC workers in that campaign. I remember the women who spoke at our church and her electrifying manner. I believe she was a Quaker. I wanted to respond immediately. But as a Grade 5 elementary school teacher, I went back to work. I was 21 in the fall of ’63. A year later in ’64, when I went to university, I joined the Canadian equivalent of SDS and was a campus activist. Again the language and mood was 'now!’ For me, EI came next in the fall of ’67. What a time! "In 1957 Cason enrolled as junior at The University of Texas. She moved out of campus dorms into the Social Gospel and racially integrated Christian Faith and Life Community, and as officer of Young Women's Christian Association and member of the Social Action Committee of the university's Religious Council was soon engaged in civil-rights education and protest. Continuing from 1959 as a UT English and philosophy graduate student, she participated in a successful sit-in campaign to desegregate Austin-area restaurants and theaters.” And of course, Joe was in dialogue with SDS, was a speaker at an SDS conference, and married Casey & Tom Hayden. Currently, as some of you may know, I am an active community organizer in Frontenac County north of Kingston Ontario - between Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto. As a volunteer, I work with the Algonquin Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nation, small Townships, and the County, under the umbrella of the Sharbot Lake Business Group and the Rural Frontenac Tourism Group. We are the last green space left in all of Southern Ontario and are committed to development that makes us greener. (e.g. communal systems water & sewage, high-frequency rail transit etc.) I write for, and maintain an email network of some 450 small businesses, tourism-related volunteer groups, elected officials and their staff that are engaged in rural economic development. Here’s to the peace that passeth understanding, Ken Sharbot Lake is a bit to the west of Perth, Ontario - in the centre of the Frontenac Arch Biosphere.
