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Celebration of the Life of Bob Booher
by Lynda C 21 Sep '24

21 Sep '24

Colleagues, Sarah Booher has asked me to post an invitation to a party remembering Bob, Sept. 29, 2024 It will be a gathering at their apartment in Rochester. The event will not be on Zoom, but she invites participation through e-mails, and cards. “Please bring any stories, writings, artwork, pictures, poems, readings, songs, remembrances of Bob, prayers, jokes or funny stories, etc. Whatever you’d like to share. Bob’s dear Friend Rev. Stephanie will act as MC to gather us, keep us on track, perhaps share her own stories, and offer a final blessing. A light buffet will be served around 4 pm.” If you are able to physically attend, please RSVP by Sept. 23rd (585-455-4452) or send your greetings and messages: Sarah Booher gefbooher(a)stny.rr.com<mailto:gefbooher@stny.rr.com> 1471 Long Pond Rd, Apt 303E Rochester, NY 14626 Sarah’s health is compromised, but she would enjoy brief phone calls from colleagues, perhaps after the event. She also enjoys e-mails which she can read at her own pace. We are grateful for our shared journeys with Bob and Sarah over the years. As I write this I am reminded of Bob’s sense of humor and his love of singing. I imagine there will be some good singing at this remembrance party. We join with Cindy, Joanna, Robert and John and their families, and with Sarah as they celebrate together. Lynda Cock Davidson, NC 336-404-0770

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Raising Funds for a Sustainable Community Farm in Puerto Rico
by jonzondo＠juno.com 20 Sep '24

20 Sep '24

Dear OE family, A good friend of mine is following a vision of hers to create a Sustainable Community Farm in Puerto Rico.If you are interested in helping or learning more about this, here is a link to the Go Fund Me site.https://gofund.me/f480a19d And here is the link to Raven's website: https://fincaserenidadpr.net Raven is also looking for volunteers.... another way to help with this amazing vision.Thank you for your time and consideration. Together we can create an incredible, sustainable future. Feel free to reach out to me if you have any thoughts or questions. We are all connected.Love,Jon Mark Elizondo(2nd generation... son of Tony and Ellery Elizondo)

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Reminder about the Memorial Service for Bill Bigelow, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 - note the change of address below
by Karen Snyder 13 Sep '24

13 Sep '24

> You are invited to join us in the celebration of the completion of the life of William Longley Bigelow. > > Memorial for William Longley Bigelow > Sunday, September 15, 2024 at 3:00 pm > Mayfair Presbyterian Church > 4358 W. Ainslie St, Chicago, IL 60630 > > For those who can not be with us in person… > Zoom room: 7468538442 > Passcode: 141190 > Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/7468538442?pwd=ODhhajFPVGlwZERTdHAwNWR2Yks3Zz09 > > > Daniel V Bigelow and Mary J Bigelow > > ***** > OBITUARY > > > > Thursday, August 29, 2024 at 3AM God called home our father, Rev. William Longley Bigelow. Born of John and Frances Bigelow, in Towanda, Pennsylvania. He was 83 and is survived by his favorite daughter Mary J and number one son Daniel V, of Chicago and Los Angeles respectively. > > He attended Oberlin College as a Philosophy major, and the Pacific School of Religion where he got his Masters of Divinity. Bill was a lifelong student of theology and world religions; living his life dedicated to social justice as a Presbyterian Minister, Ecumenical Missionary, and High School Teacher. > > During seminary he joined Martin Luther King Jr’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) where he learned to use nonviolent resistance, civil disobedience and grassroots organizing to promote racial equality. There he registered voters, desegregated buses and faced violent reprisals from those who disagreed with the civil rights organization. > > He then took his first assignment as a minister in San Francisco, where he met and married professional musician and journalist, Christine D’Harlingue (nee Selsor), with whom he eventually had two children. He was called to a church in Haight-Ashbury, so they soon moved to the corner of Haight and Ashbury in the middle of the Summer of Love. > > Following a tradition in our family that goes back generations, Dad was a dedicated missionary. For 15 years he traveled around the US and internationally with the Ecumenical Institute and Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA). Their mission was centered around community development rather than spreading religion, demonstrating what people can achieve when they work together. The ICA assigned Dad (and us variously) to Chicago, IL; Madison, WI; Saint Louis, MO; American Samoa; Phoenix, AZ; Taipei, Taiwan and Houston, TX, among others. > > Dad spent a few years teaching high school at Chimney Rock Center, a home for teens in crisis in Houston, TX. In fact he served as a substitute teacher in high schools all over the Houston Independent School District. As a preacher he ministered to churches in Genoa, NY; Yankeetown, FL and Brookfield, IL. > > In his retirement Bill filled pulpits around the Chicago area when needed; substitute preaching sermons and singing solos at his local church - Mayfair Presbyterian. Dad enjoyed bible study with a group of theologians and retired ministers who call themselves the Bible Boys. He also maintained friendships with a number of Chicago’s unhoused people. > > He was an active member of the Presbyterian Church’s Middle East Task Force for many years. It was set up to encourage study and dialogue in response to the Middle East conflict. He traveled to several countries there and cared deeply about fostering a just peace. Please make a donation in his honor to the Seraj Library Project, who build libraries in Palestine. https://www.serajlibraries.org/donate > > Since the Pandemic we’ve been meeting as a family on FaceTime every other week. Dan & Ronnie, Mary & Jimmie, Uri, Mama Kiki & Uncle Mark will miss him terribly, and love him forever. > >

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A reminder about Bill Bigelow Memorial SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 - note change in address below
by Karen Snyder 13 Sep '24

13 Sep '24

You are invited to join us in the celebration of the completion of the life of William Longley Bigelow. Memorial for William Longley Bigelow Sunday, September 15, 2024 at 3:00 pm Mayfair Presbyterian Church 4358 W. Ainslie St, Chicago, IL 60630 For those who can not be with us in person… Zoom room: 7468538442 Passcode: 141190 Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/7468538442?pwd=ODhhajFPVGlwZERTdHAwNWR2Yks3Zz09 Daniel V Bigelow and Mary J Bigelow ***** OBITUARY Thursday, August 29, 2024 at 3AM God called home our father, Rev. William Longley Bigelow. Born of John and Frances Bigelow, in Towanda, Pennsylvania. He was 83 and is survived by his favorite daughter Mary J and number one son Daniel V, of Chicago and Los Angeles respectively. He attended Oberlin College as a Philosophy major, and the Pacific School of Religion where he got his Masters of Divinity. Bill was a lifelong student of theology and world religions; living his life dedicated to social justice as a Presbyterian Minister, Ecumenical Missionary, and High School Teacher. During seminary he joined Martin Luther King Jr’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) where he learned to use nonviolent resistance, civil disobedience and grassroots organizing to promote racial equality. There he registered voters, desegregated buses and faced violent reprisals from those who disagreed with the civil rights organization. He then took his first assignment as a minister in San Francisco, where he met and married professional musician and journalist, Christine D’Harlingue (nee Selsor), with whom he eventually had two children. He was called to a church in Haight-Ashbury, so they soon moved to the corner of Haight and Ashbury in the middle of the Summer of Love. Following a tradition in our family that goes back generations, Dad was a dedicated missionary. For 15 years he traveled around the US and internationally with the Ecumenical Institute and Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA). Their mission was centered around community development rather than spreading religion, demonstrating what people can achieve when they work together. The ICA assigned Dad (and us variously) to Chicago, IL; Madison, WI; Saint Louis, MO; American Samoa; Phoenix, AZ; Taipei, Taiwan and Houston, TX, among others. Dad spent a few years teaching high school at Chimney Rock Center, a home for teens in crisis in Houston, TX. In fact he served as a substitute teacher in high schools all over the Houston Independent School District. As a preacher he ministered to churches in Genoa, NY; Yankeetown, FL and Brookfield, IL. In his retirement Bill filled pulpits around the Chicago area when needed; substitute preaching sermons and singing solos at his local church - Mayfair Presbyterian. Dad enjoyed bible study with a group of theologians and retired ministers who call themselves the Bible Boys. He also maintained friendships with a number of Chicago’s unhoused people. He was an active member of the Presbyterian Church’s Middle East Task Force for many years. It was set up to encourage study and dialogue in response to the Middle East conflict. He traveled to several countries there and cared deeply about fostering a just peace. Please make a donation in his honor to the Seraj Library Project, who build libraries in Palestine. https://www.serajlibraries.org/donate Since the Pandemic we’ve been meeting as a family on FaceTime every other week. Dan & Ronnie, Mary & Jimmie, Uri, Mama Kiki & Uncle Mark will miss him terribly, and love him forever.

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Daniel and Mary invite you to celebrate the completed life of William Longley Bigelow
by Karen Snyder 13 Sep '24

13 Sep '24

You are invited to join us in the celebration of the completion of the life of William Longley Bigelow. Memorial for William Longley Bigelow Sunday, September 15, 2024 at 3:00 pm Mayfair Presbyterian Church 4853 W. Ainslie St, Chicago, IL 60630 For those who can not be with us in person… Zoom room: 7468538442 Passcode: 141190 Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/7468538442?pwd=ODhhajFPVGlwZERTdHAwNWR2Yks3Zz09 Daniel V Bigelow and Mary J Bigelow ***** Obituary Thursday, August 29, at 3AM God called home our father, Rev. William Longley Bigelow. Born of John and Frances Bigelow, in Towanda, Pennsylvania. He was 83 and is survived by his favorite daughter Mary J and number one son Daniel V, of Chicago and Los Angeles respectively. He attended Oberlin College as a Philosophy major, and the Pacific School of Religion where he got his Masters of Divinity. Bill was a lifelong student of theology and world religions; living his life dedicated to social justice as a Presbyterian Minister, Ecumenical Missionary, and High School Teacher. During seminary he joined Martin Luther King Jr’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) where he learned to use nonviolent resistance, civil disobedience and grassroots organizing to promote racial equality. There he registered voters, desegregated buses and faced violent reprisals from those who disagreed with the civil rights organization. He then took his first assignment as a minister in San Francisco, where he met and married professional musician and journalist, Christine D’Harlingue (nee Selsor), with whom he eventually had two children. He was called to a church in Haight-Ashbury, so they soon moved to the corner of Haight and Ashbury in the middle of the Summer of Love. Following a tradition in our family that goes back generations, Dad was a dedicated missionary. For 15 years he traveled around the US and internationally with the Ecumenical Institute and Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA). Their mission was centered around community development rather than spreading religion, demonstrating what people can achieve when they work together. The ICA assigned Dad (and us variously) to Chicago, IL; Madison, WI; Saint Louis, MO; American Samoa; Phoenix, AZ; Taipei, Taiwan and Houston, TX, among others. Dad spent a few years teaching high school at Chimney Rock Center, a home for teens in crisis in Houston, TX. In fact he served as a substitute teacher in high schools all over the Houston Independent School District. As a preacher he ministered to churches in Genoa, NY; Yankeetown, FL and Brookfield, IL. In his retirement Bill filled pulpits around the Chicago area when needed; substitute preaching sermons and singing solos at his local church - Mayfair Presbyterian. Dad enjoyed bible study with a group of theologians and retired ministers who call themselves the Bible Boys. He also maintained friendships with a number of Chicago’s unhoused people. He was an active member of the Presbyterian Church’s Middle East Task Force for many years. It was set up to encourage study and dialogue in response to the Middle East conflict. He traveled to several countries there and cared deeply about fostering a just peace. Please make a donation in his honor to the Seraj Library Project, who build libraries in Palestine. https://www.serajlibraries.org/donate Since the Pandemic we’ve been meeting as a family on FaceTime every other week. Dan & Ronnie, Mary & Jimmie, Uri, Mama Kiki & Uncle Mark will miss him terribly, and love him forever.

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Methods and all
by James Wiegel 09 Sep '24

09 Sep '24

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Reflections on "our methods"
by Mari Crocker 09 Sep '24

09 Sep '24

Hi Dear Colleagues, When Jim and Judy Wiegel and Joe and I travelled with JWM to launch the first 8 HDPs, I was charged with documenting the methodology we were developing. And oh, how it unfolded from our first Consult in Oombulgurri to our last in Sudtongen. As did the framing of the Consult Report Document which we spent several weeks following Oombulgurri to structure and frame. JWM, along with Lis and Garnet were there with us in Canberra when that design was hammered out. It was’t easy. For example, we had no idea of how to transpose the tactics (actions on the local level) into Programs that could become substantive, authentic, fundable entities for our Development folks to sell. We, as a team of 7 labored well into the wee small hours, and finally took a break. When we came back JWM came up with an additional chapter to the Document called, “Anticipated Benefits.” I was the then editor of the first document, and felt this was a silly addition, redundant and unnecessary. Oh, how over the years I realize how short-sighted I was. That final chapter (which JWM insisted we keep in) described, poetically and imaginatively, what one might imagine the village and its residents would be enjoying and manifesting in another two years.. It was a more vivid grounding of the villagers’ initial vision, because it was informed by the Consult process of looking at the obstacles (contradictions) and filtering good ideas (proposals) and their actionable tactics through screens (necessary, sufficient, doable, relevant) into practical steps we then called “implementaries.” The reason for my sharing of this is that I hope that Kamala can spend less time on “policy proposals”, which by nature are very abstract, and more time painting the picture of “anticipated benefits” for our country — a very detailed vignette of life in the future, based on our residents’ hopes and dreams. Just my 2 cents. Mari Crocker

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Passing of Winkie Chesley
by Judi White 06 Sep '24

06 Sep '24

Ijust yesterday, I became aware of the passing of Winkie Chesley, Guardian of the ICA from Area New York, from Wilton CT. She passed on February 28th in her assisted living home in Fairfield, CT. Her son, Bill, said this was unexpected. The last time we talked, around Valentine's Day, she said all she wanted to do was sleep. Each time I called after that, the phone rang with no answer. Winkie was host to many colleagues on their fundraising and event recruiting treks. She supported the New York House with her breath of fresh air presence bringing her famous seven bean soup, or suits for permeators, or pitching in on set up and serving, and so much more. She holds a seat of honor on my meditative council as guide tgrough a dark night into the light of self-confidence to begin a new path. She introduced me to the labyrinth as a sacred ritual, and as an essential element in church and community renewal. Gee, she loved us all so much, i am sure her compassion lives on in the hearts of those who continue on this unshakable journey. Grieve Peacefully, Judi

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Doris Hahn Update and Contact Info
by Shelley Hahn 05 Sep '24

05 Sep '24

Hey friends! I wanted to check in with an update about our Mom, Doris Hahn. In late May, Doris had a rather sudden decline. We learned that she had had a small stroke, causing a substantial change WRT dementia. Doris moved to an assisted living facility on August 5, where she has a nice 1 bedroom apartment, and can keep her sweet dog, Jada. While she's not where she was early in the year, she has recovered well since the stroke and is much more herself, by comparison with even a few weeks ago. We are very pleased with the community she has joined and are grateful that she has support whenever needed. Doris still has a cell phone, but it will only accept calls from known numbers. If you would like to get in touch, let me know your phone number and I will program it into her phone. If you'd like to send a note, her mailing address is: Doris Hahn 2770 S Adams St Apt 147 Bloomington, IN 47403 (BTW, her 93rd birthday is on 9/11! 😃) If you'd like to send an electronic message, feel free to respond to this message and I will share it with her. We continue to be grateful for this community that has defined and inspired Doris's life over the decades. Fondest regards, Shelley Hahn

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Thinking of you dear Doris
by Vinod Parekh 02 Sep '24

02 Sep '24

With fondest memories Vinod and Kamala

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