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Re: [Oe List ...] Endeavor flight over California /NASA connections...
by LAURELCG＠aol.com 30 Sep '12

30 Sep '12

Ruth, It was great to hear your stories of classroom connections to the space program. We've lived in such exciting times. I heard the 747 rumble overhead, but missed seeing it. Guess it flew up the east side of the central valley to Sacramento, over to the Golden Gate and then down the coast. As for the next generation, my son Barry is going to interview for a job with NASA next week, as a machinist making parts for the telescope on Mauna Kea. He works for a Navy contractor at Pearl Harbor now, where they're worried about Pentagon budget cuts. Working at 14,000 feet appeals to him, I think. I've really enjoyed the string that Tim's retirement announcement started. Thank you, Tim and blessings on your future journey. In Love, Jann McGuire In a message dated 9/29/2012 7:31:03 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, tddynewf(a)cruzio.com writes: A few days ago on September 21st we had the fly over of the Endeavor piggybacked on its 747 on the way to Los Angeles. I missed seeeing it flying right over this area, but many of my friends saw it, and lots of pictures were posted of it flying over Santa Cruz and the Monterey Bay.

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Re: [Oe List ...] [Dialogue] The old Order passing away
by Jaime R Vergara 29 Sep '12

29 Sep '12

Jann, that might have been Carlos Romulo, a squirt of a dynamo who Truman called "the President of the World". He was the first President of the UN General Assembly. He wore elevated shoes and apocryphal stories abound of him literally standing on copies of the Encyclopedia Britanica! He was a diplomat extraordinaire! j'aime la vie -----Original Message----- From: LAURELCG <LAURELCG(a)aol.com> To: oe <oe(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Sun, Sep 30, 2012 9:15 am Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] [Dialogue] The old Order passing away The name Romulo sent a flood of memories rushing in of Ambassador Romulo (what was his first name - also started with R, I think) speaking at 2 assemblies at my high school - Midland (TX) H.S. He was an extremely inspirational speaker, and expanded my context exponentially. Jann In a message dated 9/27/2012 10:20:56 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, susan(a)gmdtech.com writes: Jon, if you do have a copy I could borrow, this time I would definitely make photocopies before returning it. Would love to have a copy and share it with Ginger Hansen Holmes, who, as I mentioned, was born in Mindanao. Her mom was a gorgeous Mestiza. Ginger (Virginia) was about 3 or 4 years old when the Japanese invaded the Philippines. She lives nearby and we are both life members (and I am former president) of the Association of Philippine American Women (APAW), founded in 1947 by Mrs. Romulo (wife of the first Ambassador of the Republic of the Philippines to the U.S.) and her friend Trini Legarda. Ginger’s husband, Kent, is in the process of completing a book about my uncle, Wendell Fertig, who led the guerrillas on Mindanao. I know they’d love to see your grandfather’s book—it would likely give Kent some details about Mindanao in WWII that he doesn’t have, despite all his research. Susan _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE(a)lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net

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Re: [Oe List ...] [Dialogue] The old Order passing away
by LAURELCG＠aol.com 29 Sep '12

29 Sep '12

The name Romulo sent a flood of memories rushing in of Ambassador Romulo (what was his first name - also started with R, I think) speaking at 2 assemblies at my high school - Midland (TX) H.S. He was an extremely inspirational speaker, and expanded my context exponentially. Jann In a message dated 9/27/2012 10:20:56 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, susan(a)gmdtech.com writes: Jon, if you do have a copy I could borrow, this time I would definitely make photocopies before returning it. Would love to have a copy and share it with Ginger Hansen Holmes, who, as I mentioned, was born in Mindanao. Her mom was a gorgeous Mestiza. Ginger (Virginia) was about 3 or 4 years old when the Japanese invaded the Philippines. She lives nearby and we are both life members (and I am former president) of the Association of Philippine American Women (APAW), founded in 1947 by Mrs. Romulo (wife of the first Ambassador of the Republic of the Philippines to the U.S.) and her friend Trini Legarda. Ginger’s husband, Kent, is in the process of completing a book about my uncle, Wendell Fertig, who led the guerrillas on Mindanao. I know they’d love to see your grandfather’s book—it would likely give Kent some details about Mindanao in WWII that he doesn’t have, despite all his research. Susan

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Re: [Oe List ...] [Dialogue] The old Order passing away
by Alan 28 Sep '12

28 Sep '12

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Re: [Oe List ...] [Dialogue] The old Order passing away
by LAURELCG＠aol.com 28 Sep '12

28 Sep '12

Yes, Jaime. I was terrified to try the tinikling, being a little slow-moving in my youth. My ankles were reluctant, not having wings. Jann In a message dated 9/27/2012 4:40:31 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, svesjaime(a)aol.com writes: Susan and Jann, et al - The tinkling bamboo dance, the national dance, is also perceived as a life stance. When birds are caught in the bamboo groove, especially during a storm, the bamboos hit each other ferociously that the only option is to try to escape, or dance in the wind, gracefully and with agility - but carefully. j'aime la vie

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Re: [Oe List ...] [Dialogue] The old Order passing away
by PSchrijnen＠aol.com 28 Sep '12

28 Sep '12

Susan, I like the paragraph underneath your signature. It speaks of the deep values you hold and what you hope for society. thanks, Paul In a message dated 27/09/2012 06:05:56 GMT Daylight Time, susan(a)gmdtech.com writes: Jann, I sent an email a few days ago referencing the book you’re talking about—Ellery had loaned it to me and I was wishing I had made a copy of it before returning it to her, because it is not available from any source. Jon, do you remember the name of it? The cover was black and red, and I believe the title was something about betrayal. Jann, you’re right, they did not get out right away. They were on the island of Mindanao, and my parents were on the island of Panay, where I was born in ’44 after my mother had been in hiding in the jungle for several years. I believe Ellery got out by submarine on the USS Narwhal in ’43. We got out by submarine when I was 3 months old the following year and then went back right after the war (I grew up in the Philippines). Ellery might have known another girl from Mindanao who has just written a book about her parents’ and her own WWII experience, called Guerrilla Daughter (the author, Ginger Hanson Holmes, is a close friend of mine; her dad and teen age brothers served in the Mindanao guerrillas under my uncle, Wendell Fertig). The game you are talking about is actually a Philippine folk dance called Tinikling. It is patterned after the movements of the Tikling bird as its long legs move in and out of fish traps in the water. Susan We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We've staked the future of all our political institutions upon our capacity... to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God. (James Madison, 1778 to the General Assembly of the State of Virginia) From: oe-bounces(a)lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of LAURELCG(a)aol.com Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 12:39 AM To: oe(a)lists.wedgeblade.net Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] [Dialogue] The old Order passing away In the San Francisco House, 1970-71, Ellery acquired some bamboo poles and taught the kids a Philippino game kind of like jump rope, but jumping between the poles as they were clapped together in rhythm. She was very good at it. I believe she and her parents didn't get evacuated for 2 or 3 years after the war broke out. They were hidden from the occupying Japanese army by local folks in the crawl space under the house until smuggled out on a submarine and taken to Ayers Rock (?) in Australia. Maybe Jon can elaborate. I believe her father wrote a book about it. I feel privileged to have been acquainted with these two heroines. Jann McGuire In a message dated 9/26/2012 8:02:44 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, _dpat23(a)msn.com_ (mailto:dpat23@msn.com) writes: I remember Ellery's talking about having lived in the Philippines as a high school girl. (Her dad was a missionary and they were evacuated when WWII broke out.) When she was assigned to Manila, she thought the Tagalog language she had been fluent in would come back to her fairly easily. She was very frustrated to find that it was gone and not coming back. About 6 months in to her assignment, she had been doing development in Manila and was exhausted. She got on the bus to go home and wanted nothing much more than a good nap. But the women just behind her would not let that happen. They kept yammering away about the most stupid and trivial things: their kids and their squabbles, the troubles in their marriages, and other nonsense. Ellery was furious; why couldn't these women shut up and let her sleep? Suddenly, she realized that the women were speaking Tagalog and she was understanding every word. She was so tired that she had lost all her inhibitions and the Tagalog that lay just beneath her conscious mind came out. So from then on, she both understood and spoke Tagalog fluently. She had a great time telling this story on herself. Pat ____________________________________ From: _sunwalker(a)comcast.net_ (mailto:sunwalker@comcast.net) To: _dialogue(a)lists.wedgeblade.net_ (mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net) ; _oe(a)lists.wedgeblade.net_ (mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net) Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 11:49:46 -0600 Subject: [Dialogue] The old Order passing away First, a reflection on Ellery – as a young and inexperienced Global Prior, Ellery was one of the ones who was gracious enough to let me learn from my mistakes without rancor and yet with continued nourishing support. Just her face was a human support mechanism. She spiritually nourished me and we rarely even spoke. And with mortality on my mind as so many saints are called home, knowing you have gone with God, I will let go a bit of the anticipation of my own return. For Carol, while there are many, many memories: one that popped to the top was the time we were at the IERD in Delhi and had boarded the VERY tiny elevator on the top floor (about the 22nd as I recall) of the hotel where we were housed. We pushed the button for the ground floor and about a third of the way down, the elevator shuddered to a stop and the door opened…on a brick wall. Well, I was a little claustrophobic and unaware that Carol was extremely claustrophobic. That hour waiting to be rescued (it could have been 15 minutes, but seemed like SEVERAL hours) was revealing of the wondrous woman of steel (Superman move over) who kept us breathing and laughing to avoid injuring ourselves in the mad panic of fear that sets in when you MUST get OUT and you cannot. Clearly our circumstances were not our problem. While in “Heaven,” do a few cartwheels for me, my dear, as I know we both would enjoy them. Sunny Sunny Walker SunWalker Enterprises 303-587-3017 (cell) 303-671-0704 (home/office) _sunwalker(a)comcast.net_ (mailto:sunwalker@comcast.net) Aurora, CO No mattter how far you've gone down the wrong road, turn back. ~ Turkish Proverb _______________________________________________ Dialogue mailing list _Dialogue(a)lists.wedgeblade.net_ (mailto:Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net) _http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net_ (http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net) = _______________________________________________ OE mailing list _OE(a)lists.wedgeblade.net_ (mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net) _http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net_ (http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net) _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE(a)lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net

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Re: [Oe List ...] [Dialogue] The old Order passing away
by LAURELCG＠aol.com 28 Sep '12

28 Sep '12

In the San Francisco House, 1970-71, Ellery acquired some bamboo poles and taught the kids a Philippino game kind of like jump rope, but jumping between the poles as they were clapped together in rhythm. She was very good at it. I believe she and her parents didn't get evacuated for 2 or 3 years after the war broke out. They were hidden from the occupying Japanese army by local folks in the crawl space under the house until smuggled out on a submarine and taken to Ayers Rock (?) in Australia. Maybe Jon can elaborate. I believe her father wrote a book about it. I feel privileged to have been acquainted with these two heroines. Jann McGuire In a message dated 9/26/2012 8:02:44 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, dpat23(a)msn.com writes: I remember Ellery's talking about having lived in the Philippines as a high school girl. (Her dad was a missionary and they were evacuated when WWII broke out.) When she was assigned to Manila, she thought the Tagalog language she had been fluent in would come back to her fairly easily. She was very frustrated to find that it was gone and not coming back. About 6 months in to her assignment, she had been doing development in Manila and was exhausted. She got on the bus to go home and wanted nothing much more than a good nap. But the women just behind her would not let that happen. They kept yammering away about the most stupid and trivial things: their kids and their squabbles, the troubles in their marriages, and other nonsense. Ellery was furious; why couldn't these women shut up and let her sleep? Suddenly, she realized that the women were speaking Tagalog and she was understanding every word. She was so tired that she had lost all her inhibitions and the Tagalog that lay just beneath her conscious mind came out. So from then on, she both understood and spoke Tagalog fluently. She had a great time telling this story on herself. Pat ____________________________________ From: sunwalker(a)comcast.net To: dialogue(a)lists.wedgeblade.net; oe(a)lists.wedgeblade.net Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 11:49:46 -0600 Subject: [Dialogue] The old Order passing away First, a reflection on Ellery – as a young and inexperienced Global Prior, Ellery was one of the ones who was gracious enough to let me learn from my mistakes without rancor and yet with continued nourishing support. Just her face was a human support mechanism. She spiritually nourished me and we rarely even spoke. And with mortality on my mind as so many saints are called home, knowing you have gone with God, I will let go a bit of the anticipation of my own return. For Carol, while there are many, many memories: one that popped to the top was the time we were at the IERD in Delhi and had boarded the VERY tiny elevator on the top floor (about the 22nd as I recall) of the hotel where we were housed. We pushed the button for the ground floor and about a third of the way down, the elevator shuddered to a stop and the door opened…on a brick wall. Well, I was a little claustrophobic and unaware that Carol was extremely claustrophobic. That hour waiting to be rescued (it could have been 15 minutes, but seemed like SEVERAL hours) was revealing of the wondrous woman of steel (Superman move over) who kept us breathing and laughing to avoid injuring ourselves in the mad panic of fear that sets in when you MUST get OUT and you cannot. Clearly our circumstances were not our problem. While in “Heaven,” do a few cartwheels for me, my dear, as I know we both would enjoy them. Sunny Sunny Walker SunWalker Enterprises 303-587-3017 (cell) 303-671-0704 (home/office) _sunwalker(a)comcast.net_ (mailto:sunwalker@comcast.net) Aurora, CO No mattter how far you've gone down the wrong road, turn back. ~ Turkish Proverb _______________________________________________ Dialogue mailing list Dialogue(a)lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net = _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE(a)lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net

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Re: [Oe List ...] [Dialogue] The old Order passing away
by jonzondo＠juno.com 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

that would be the one! one of my earliest photos of me walking is at that church. ---------- Original Message ---------- From: Wilson Priscilla <Pris(a)TeamTechPress.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] [Dialogue] The old Order passing away Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:55:26 -0500 Jon, I've been trying to remember the church where your parents were when I met them. I went to Chicago for a couple of days this week and stopped to see a friend in Norwood Park.Your Dad's church was St. Andrews Presbyterian Church just south of Norwood Park. This would have been in the 60s I think.Priscilla Wilson On Sep 27, 2012, at 5:21 PM, Ruth Landmann wrote:At 8:46 AM -0400 9/27/12, LAURELCG(a)aol.com wrote:Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Language: en In the San Francisco House, 1970-71, Ellery acquired some bamboo poles and taught the kids a Philippino game kind of like jump rope, but jumping between the poles as they were clapped together in rhythm. She was very good at it. I believe she and her parents didn't get evacuated for 2 or 3 years after the war broke out. They were hidden from the occupying Japanese army by local folks in the crawl space under the house until smuggled out on a submarine and taken to Ayers Rock (?) in Australia. Maybe Jon can elaborate. I believe her father wrote a book about it. I feel privileged to have been acquainted with these two heroines. Jann McGuire Jann, thank you for reminding me where I first met Ellery and Tony, is was in the San Francisco House! I drove up there almost weekly for meetings of various kinds. One night I was so exhausted from long days of teaching and driving to the S.F. House so often, I nearly drove off Highway 280! (I also almost fell asleep reading a book to my 5th graders--not cool!) I remember when Ellery and Tony came to Kemper, but I have no idea what year that was.Ruth Landmann-- _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE(a)lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net Priscilla H WilsonPris(a)TeamTechPress.com913-432-2107www.teamtechpress.com ____________________________________________________________ Woman is 53 But Looks 25 Mom reveals 1 simple wrinkle trick that has angered doctors... http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5064dd6c5738a5d6c5331st01vuc

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Re: [Oe List ...] [Dialogue] The old Order passing away
by jonzondo＠juno.com 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

Tony & Ellery moved to Kemper somewhere in 1982 or 83 after completing their assignment in Sol De Septiembre in Chile. I was at U of I in Champaign/Urbana at the time. Jon ---------- Original Message ---------- From: Ruth Landmann <tddynewf(a)cruzio.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] [Dialogue] The old Order passing away Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:21:09 -0700 I remember when Ellery and Tony came to Kemper, but I have no idea what year that was.Ruth Landmann-- ____________________________________________________________ Fast, Secure, NetZero 4G Mobile Broadband. Try it. http://www.netzero.net/?refcd=NZINTISP0512T4GOUT2

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Re: [Oe List ...] [Dialogue] The old Order passing away
by Alan 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

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