Being Black in the Order Ecumenical
Joyce, Your brief comment, in remembering Robert Shropshire, about what it was like to be black and to have been in the O:E has me wanting to hear more about what that experience was like, and trying to recall our black Order colleagues prior to our being dispersed around the globe, embracing cultures of color everywhere. In addition to you, Carlos and Shropshire, I remember Larry Ward, Nadine Ward, Harold Williams and Richard whose last name was, I think, Epson. Other faces are pictured in my mind's eye whose names I cannot recall. Who were they? My interest is peaked by the fact that the white majority, in the U.S at least, is shrinking and will likely soon no longer exist, combined with the fact that there is a glimmer of indication that cultural diversity of all kinds is coming to be not only tolerated but embraced by more and more people. On behalf of the future, with an eye toward how all people may live together in peace on this flat, increasingly diverse and crowded planet, I would love to hear more of your reflections, as well as those of others, on what it was like then to be black and in the O:E and what, with 50 years of experience behind us, we all have learned. A conversation like this could be a fitting tribute to Robert, Nadine, Harold and others now departed who have impacted our community and consciousness over the years. Randy "Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires." -Martin Buber (adapted)
Dear Randy, I, too would appreciate hearing some of the stories about what it was like to be black in the Order. I remember Phoebe Reynolds, Christine Harris, and some of the children .... Tad and Todd Mueller, Eric Shropshire, Adam and Kaira Lingo, Emanuel Ward, Kevin Woodward ... I am sorry , who are the others who have slipped through my memory ...? Thank you Joyce and Randy Nancy On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:55 AM, R Williams <rcwmbw@yahoo.com> wrote:
Joyce,
Your brief comment, in remembering Robert Shropshire, about what it was like to be black and to have been in the O:E has me wanting to hear more about what that experience was like, and trying to recall our black Order colleagues prior to our being dispersed around the globe, embracing cultures of color everywhere.
In addition to you, Carlos and Shropshire, I remember Larry Ward, Nadine Ward, Harold Williams and Richard whose last name was, I think, Epson. Other faces are pictured in my mind's eye whose names I cannot recall. Who were they?
My interest is peaked by the fact that the white majority, in the U.S at least, is shrinking and will likely soon no longer exist, combined with the fact that there is a glimmer of indication that cultural diversity of all kinds is coming to be not only tolerated but embraced by more and more people.
*On* *behalf* *of* *the* *future*, with an eye toward how all people may live together in peace on this flat, increasingly diverse and crowded planet, I would love to hear more of your reflections, as well as those of others, on what it was like then to be black and in the O:E and what, with 50 years of experience behind us, we all have learned.
A conversation like this could be a fitting tribute to Robert, Nadine, Harold and others now departed who have impacted our community and consciousness over the years.
Randy
"Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires." -Martin Buber (adapted)
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Sharon Turner stands out for me. Vincent Scott and Mary. And deep colleague in Mississippi, the late Ruth Wilson. Diann McCabe On 6/1/12 8:17 AM, "Nancy Lanphear" <nancy@songaia.com> wrote: Dear Randy, I, too would appreciate hearing some of the stories about what it was like to be black in the Order. I remember Phoebe Reynolds, Christine Harris, and some of the children .... Tad and Todd Mueller, Eric Shropshire, Adam and Kaira Lingo, Emanuel Ward, Kevin Woodward ... I am sorry , who are the others who have slipped through my memory ...? Thank you Joyce and Randy Nancy On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:55 AM, R Williams <rcwmbw@yahoo.com> wrote: Joyce, Your brief comment, in remembering Robert Shropshire, about what it was like to be black and to have been in the O:E has me wanting to hear more about what that experience was like, and trying to recall our black Order colleagues prior to our being dispersed around the globe, embracing cultures of color everywhere. In addition to you, Carlos and Shropshire, I remember Larry Ward, Nadine Ward, Harold Williams and Richard whose last name was, I think, Epson. Other faces are pictured in my mind's eye whose names I cannot recall. Who were they? My interest is peaked by the fact that the white majority, in the U.S at least, is shrinking and will likely soon no longer exist, combined with the fact that there is a glimmer of indication that cultural diversity of all kinds is coming to be not only tolerated but embraced by more and more people. On behalf of the future, with an eye toward how all people may live together in peace on this flat, increasingly diverse and crowded planet, I would love to hear more of your reflections, as well as those of others, on what it was like then to be black and in the O:E and what, with 50 years of experience behind us, we all have learned. A conversation like this could be a fitting tribute to Robert, Nadine, Harold and others now departed who have impacted our community and consciousness over the years. Randy "Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires." -Martin Buber (adapted) _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net
I learned so much from Lois Reeves and Emma Melton in the Cleveland Region. I am so grateful for their presence in our lives. Many things they said still make me smile. Their wisdom and leadership were very important in the ICA's work. Mary Laura Jones On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:12 AM, McCabe, Diann A <dm14@txstate.edu> wrote:
Sharon Turner stands out for me. Vincent Scott and Mary. And deep colleague in Mississippi, the late Ruth Wilson.
Diann McCabe
On 6/1/12 8:17 AM, "Nancy Lanphear" <nancy@songaia.com> wrote:
Dear Randy,
I, too would appreciate hearing some of the stories about what it was like to be black in the Order. I remember Phoebe Reynolds, Christine Harris, and some of the children .... Tad and Todd Mueller, Eric Shropshire, Adam and Kaira Lingo, Emanuel Ward, Kevin Woodward ... I am sorry , who are the others who have slipped through my memory ...? Thank you Joyce and Randy
Nancy
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:55 AM, R Williams <rcwmbw@yahoo.com> wrote:
Joyce,
Your brief comment, in remembering Robert Shropshire, about what it was like to be black and to have been in the O:E has me wanting to hear more about what that experience was like, and trying to recall our black Order colleagues prior to our being dispersed around the globe, embracing cultures of color everywhere.
In addition to you, Carlos and Shropshire, I remember Larry Ward, Nadine Ward, Harold Williams and Richard whose last name was, I think, Epson. Other faces are pictured in my mind's eye whose names I cannot recall. Who were they?
My interest is peaked by the fact that the white majority, in the U.S at least, is shrinking and will likely soon no longer exist, combined with the fact that there is a glimmer of indication that cultural diversity of all kinds is coming to be not only tolerated but embraced by more and more people.
*On* *behalf* *of* *the* *future*, with an eye toward how all people may live together in peace on this flat, increasingly diverse and crowded planet, I would love to hear more of your reflections, as well as those of others, on what it was like then to be black and in the O:E and what, with 50 years of experience behind us, we all have learned.
A conversation like this could be a fitting tribute to Robert, Nadine, Harold and others now departed who have impacted our community and consciousness over the years.
Randy
"Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires." -Martin Buber (adapted)
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Who can forget Dawn Lingo and Lynette Shanklin? ________________________________ From: Mary Laura Jones <mljones2022@gmail.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Friday, June 1, 2012 9:37 AM Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical I learned so much from Lois Reeves and Emma Melton in the Cleveland Region. I am so grateful for their presence in our lives. Many things they said still make me smile. Their wisdom and leadership were very important in the ICA's work. Mary Laura Jones On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:12 AM, McCabe, Diann A <dm14@txstate.edu> wrote: Sharon Turner stands out for me. Vincent Scott and Mary. And deep colleague in Mississippi, the late Ruth Wilson.
Diann McCabe
On 6/1/12 8:17 AM, "Nancy Lanphear" <nancy@songaia.com> wrote:
Dear Randy,
I, too would appreciate hearing some of the stories about what it was like to be black in the Order. I remember Phoebe Reynolds, Christine Harris, and some of the children .... Tad and Todd Mueller, Eric Shropshire, Adam and Kaira Lingo, Emanuel Ward, Kevin Woodward ... I am sorry , who are the others who have slipped through my memory ...? Thank you Joyce and Randy
Nancy
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:55 AM, R Williams <rcwmbw@yahoo.com> wrote:
Joyce,
Your brief comment, in remembering Robert Shropshire, about what it was like to be black and to have been in the O:E has me wanting to hear more about what that experience was like, and trying to recall our black Order colleagues prior to our being dispersed around the globe, embracing cultures of color everywhere. In addition to you, Carlos and Shropshire, I remember Larry Ward, Nadine Ward, Harold Williams and Richard whose last name was, I think, Epson. Other faces are pictured in my mind's eye whose names I cannot recall. Who were they? My interest is peaked by the fact that the white majority, in the U.S at least, is shrinking and will likely soon no longer exist, combined with the fact that there is a glimmer of indication that cultural diversity of all kinds is coming to be not only tolerated but embraced by more and more people. On behalf of the future, with an eye toward how all people may live together in peace on this flat, increasingly diverse and crowded planet, I would love to hear more of your reflections, as well as those of others, on what it was like then to be black and in the O:E and what, with 50 years of experience behind us, we all have learned. A conversation like this could be a fitting tribute to Robert, Nadine, Harold and others now departed who have impacted our community and consciousness over the years. Randy "Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires." -Martin Buber (adapted)
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Dear Ones, Our common memory is such a gift. Each of us can let go of some of our worry about loosing our own. Thanks for sharing your memories with me. Love, Nancy On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:48 AM, E B <marosel2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
Who can forget Dawn Lingo and Lynette Shanklin?
------------------------------ *From:* Mary Laura Jones <mljones2022@gmail.com> *To:* Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> *Sent:* Friday, June 1, 2012 9:37 AM *Subject:* Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical
I learned so much from Lois Reeves and Emma Melton in the Cleveland Region. I am so grateful for their presence in our lives. Many things they said still make me smile. Their wisdom and leadership were very important in the ICA's work.
Mary Laura Jones
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:12 AM, McCabe, Diann A <dm14@txstate.edu> wrote:
Sharon Turner stands out for me. Vincent Scott and Mary. And deep colleague in Mississippi, the late Ruth Wilson.
Diann McCabe
On 6/1/12 8:17 AM, "Nancy Lanphear" <nancy@songaia.com> wrote:
Dear Randy,
I, too would appreciate hearing some of the stories about what it was like to be black in the Order. I remember Phoebe Reynolds, Christine Harris, and some of the children .... Tad and Todd Mueller, Eric Shropshire, Adam and Kaira Lingo, Emanuel Ward, Kevin Woodward ... I am sorry , who are the others who have slipped through my memory ...? Thank you Joyce and Randy
Nancy
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:55 AM, R Williams <rcwmbw@yahoo.com> wrote:
Joyce,
Your brief comment, in remembering Robert Shropshire, about what it was like to be black and to have been in the O:E has me wanting to hear more about what that experience was like, and trying to recall our black Order colleagues prior to our being dispersed around the globe, embracing cultures of color everywhere.
In addition to you, Carlos and Shropshire, I remember Larry Ward, Nadine Ward, Harold Williams and Richard whose last name was, I think, Epson. Other faces are pictured in my mind's eye whose names I cannot recall. Who were they?
My interest is peaked by the fact that the white majority, in the U.S at least, is shrinking and will likely soon no longer exist, combined with the fact that there is a glimmer of indication that cultural diversity of all kinds is coming to be not only tolerated but embraced by more and more people.
*On* *behalf* *of* *the* *future*, with an eye toward how all people may live together in peace on this flat, increasingly diverse and crowded planet, I would love to hear more of your reflections, as well as those of others, on what it was like then to be black and in the O:E and what, with 50 years of experience behind us, we all have learned.
A conversation like this could be a fitting tribute to Robert, Nadine, Harold and others now departed who have impacted our community and consciousness over the years.
Randy
"Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires." -Martin Buber (adapted)
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Phylis Christmas On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Nancy Lanphear <nancy@songaia.com> wrote:
Dear Ones,
Our common memory is such a gift. Each of us can let go of some of our worry about loosing our own. Thanks for sharing your memories with me.
Love,
Nancy
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:48 AM, E B <marosel2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
Who can forget Dawn Lingo and Lynette Shanklin?
________________________________ From: Mary Laura Jones <mljones2022@gmail.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Friday, June 1, 2012 9:37 AM Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical
I learned so much from Lois Reeves and Emma Melton in the Cleveland Region. I am so grateful for their presence in our lives. Many things they said still make me smile. Their wisdom and leadership were very important in the ICA's work.
Mary Laura Jones
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:12 AM, McCabe, Diann A <dm14@txstate.edu> wrote:
Sharon Turner stands out for me. Vincent Scott and Mary. And deep colleague in Mississippi, the late Ruth Wilson.
Diann McCabe
On 6/1/12 8:17 AM, "Nancy Lanphear" <nancy@songaia.com> wrote:
Dear Randy,
I, too would appreciate hearing some of the stories about what it was like to be black in the Order. I remember Phoebe Reynolds, Christine Harris, and some of the children .... Tad and Todd Mueller, Eric Shropshire, Adam and Kaira Lingo, Emanuel Ward, Kevin Woodward ... I am sorry , who are the others who have slipped through my memory ...? Thank you Joyce and Randy
Nancy
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:55 AM, R Williams <rcwmbw@yahoo.com> wrote:
Joyce,
Your brief comment, in remembering Robert Shropshire, about what it was like to be black and to have been in the O:E has me wanting to hear more about what that experience was like, and trying to recall our black Order colleagues prior to our being dispersed around the globe, embracing cultures of color everywhere.
In addition to you, Carlos and Shropshire, I remember Larry Ward, Nadine Ward, Harold Williams and Richard whose last name was, I think, Epson. Other faces are pictured in my mind's eye whose names I cannot recall. Who were they?
My interest is peaked by the fact that the white majority, in the U.S at least, is shrinking and will likely soon no longer exist, combined with the fact that there is a glimmer of indication that cultural diversity of all kinds is coming to be not only tolerated but embraced by more and more people.
On behalf of the future, with an eye toward how all people may live together in peace on this flat, increasingly diverse and crowded planet, I would love to hear more of your reflections, as well as those of others, on what it was like then to be black and in the O:E and what, with 50 years of experience behind us, we all have learned.
A conversation like this could be a fitting tribute to Robert, Nadine, Harold and others now departed who have impacted our community and consciousness over the years.
Randy
"Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires." -Martin Buber (adapted)
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And I so enjoyed working with everyone in Fifth City but most especially Velma Brocks who is my daughter, Catherine's, godmother. Velma could say so much without saying anything. She and I handled the Fifth City payroll for awhile. Plus David and I had a wonderful time on the Fifth City to the World trip to the Bahamas so beautifully enabled and spiritized by Alice and Jim Baumbach. Remember Peggy who led the singing on our bus all the way there and back? I know the Fifth Citizens were not O:E but they were our colleagues and mentors. Ann Stewart Shafer -----Original Message----- From: oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of David Scott Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 10:23 AM To: Order Ecumenical Community Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical Phylis Christmas On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Nancy Lanphear <nancy@songaia.com> wrote:
Dear Ones,
Our common memory is such a gift. Each of us can let go of some of our worry about loosing our own. Thanks for sharing your memories with me.
Love,
Nancy
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:48 AM, E B <marosel2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
Who can forget Dawn Lingo and Lynette Shanklin?
________________________________ From: Mary Laura Jones <mljones2022@gmail.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Friday, June 1, 2012 9:37 AM Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical
I learned so much from Lois Reeves and Emma Melton in the Cleveland Region. I am so grateful for their presence in our lives. Many things they said still make me smile. Their wisdom and leadership were very important in the ICA's work.
Mary Laura Jones
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:12 AM, McCabe, Diann A <dm14@txstate.edu> wrote:
Sharon Turner stands out for me. Vincent Scott and Mary. And deep colleague in Mississippi, the late Ruth Wilson.
Diann McCabe
On 6/1/12 8:17 AM, "Nancy Lanphear" <nancy@songaia.com> wrote:
Dear Randy,
I, too would appreciate hearing some of the stories about what it was like to be black in the Order. I remember Phoebe Reynolds, Christine Harris, and some of the children .... Tad and Todd Mueller, Eric Shropshire, Adam and Kaira Lingo, Emanuel Ward, Kevin Woodward ... I am sorry , who are the others who have slipped through my memory ...? Thank you Joyce and Randy
Nancy
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:55 AM, R Williams <rcwmbw@yahoo.com> wrote:
Joyce,
Your brief comment, in remembering Robert Shropshire, about what it was like to be black and to have been in the O:E has me wanting to hear more about what that experience was like, and trying to recall our black Order colleagues prior to our being dispersed around the globe, embracing cultures of color everywhere.
In addition to you, Carlos and Shropshire, I remember Larry Ward, Nadine Ward, Harold Williams and Richard whose last name was, I think,
Epson.
Other faces are pictured in my mind's eye whose names I cannot recall. Who were they?
My interest is peaked by the fact that the white majority, in the U.S at least, is shrinking and will likely soon no longer exist, combined with the fact that there is a glimmer of indication that cultural diversity of all kinds is coming to be not only tolerated but embraced by more and more people.
On behalf of the future, with an eye toward how all people may live together in peace on this flat, increasingly diverse and crowded planet, I would love to hear more of your reflections, as well as those of others, on what it was like then to be black and in the O:E and what, with 50 years of experience behind us, we all have learned.
A conversation like this could be a fitting tribute to Robert, Nadine, Harold and others now departed who have impacted our community and consciousness over the years.
Randy
"Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires." -Martin Buber (adapted)
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You sang on the bus all the way to the Bahamas ? Wow. Jim Wiegel Jfwiegel@yahoo.com I can't say as I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. Daniel Boone On Jun 1, 2012, at 18:25, "Ann Shafer" <asgoodasitgets@hughes.net> wrote:
And I so enjoyed working with everyone in Fifth City but most especially Velma Brocks who is my daughter, Catherine's, godmother. Velma could say so much without saying anything. She and I handled the Fifth City payroll for awhile. Plus David and I had a wonderful time on the Fifth City to the World trip to the Bahamas so beautifully enabled and spiritized by Alice and Jim Baumbach. Remember Peggy who led the singing on our bus all the way there and back? I know the Fifth Citizens were not O:E but they were our colleagues and mentors. Ann Stewart Shafer
-----Original Message----- From: oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of David Scott Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 10:23 AM To: Order Ecumenical Community Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical
Phylis Christmas
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Nancy Lanphear <nancy@songaia.com> wrote:
Dear Ones,
Our common memory is such a gift. Each of us can let go of some of our worry about loosing our own. Thanks for sharing your memories with me.
Love,
Nancy
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:48 AM, E B <marosel2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
Who can forget Dawn Lingo and Lynette Shanklin?
________________________________ From: Mary Laura Jones <mljones2022@gmail.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Friday, June 1, 2012 9:37 AM Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical
I learned so much from Lois Reeves and Emma Melton in the Cleveland Region. I am so grateful for their presence in our lives. Many things they said still make me smile. Their wisdom and leadership were very important in the ICA's work.
Mary Laura Jones
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:12 AM, McCabe, Diann A <dm14@txstate.edu> wrote:
Sharon Turner stands out for me. Vincent Scott and Mary. And deep colleague in Mississippi, the late Ruth Wilson.
Diann McCabe
On 6/1/12 8:17 AM, "Nancy Lanphear" <nancy@songaia.com> wrote:
Dear Randy,
I, too would appreciate hearing some of the stories about what it was like to be black in the Order. I remember Phoebe Reynolds, Christine Harris, and some of the children .... Tad and Todd Mueller, Eric Shropshire, Adam and Kaira Lingo, Emanuel Ward, Kevin Woodward ... I am sorry , who are the others who have slipped through my memory ...? Thank you Joyce and Randy
Nancy
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:55 AM, R Williams <rcwmbw@yahoo.com> wrote:
Joyce,
Your brief comment, in remembering Robert Shropshire, about what it was like to be black and to have been in the O:E has me wanting to hear more about what that experience was like, and trying to recall our black Order colleagues prior to our being dispersed around the globe, embracing cultures of color everywhere.
In addition to you, Carlos and Shropshire, I remember Larry Ward, Nadine Ward, Harold Williams and Richard whose last name was, I think,
Epson.
Other faces are pictured in my mind's eye whose names I cannot recall. Who were they?
My interest is peaked by the fact that the white majority, in the U.S at least, is shrinking and will likely soon no longer exist, combined with the fact that there is a glimmer of indication that cultural diversity of all kinds is coming to be not only tolerated but embraced by more and more people.
On behalf of the future, with an eye toward how all people may live together in peace on this flat, increasingly diverse and crowded planet, I would love to hear more of your reflections, as well as those of others, on what it was like then to be black and in the O:E and what, with 50 years of experience behind us, we all have learned.
A conversation like this could be a fitting tribute to Robert, Nadine, Harold and others now departed who have impacted our community and consciousness over the years.
Randy
"Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires." -Martin Buber (adapted)
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I have a name in my head that I can't quite put a face with. Does the name Marcella Buchanan, or something like that, ring a bell with anyone? Randy "Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires." -Martin Buber (adapted) ________________________________ From: James Wiegel <jfwiegel@yahoo.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Cc: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Saturday, June 2, 2012 12:03 PM Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical You sang on the bus all the way to the Bahamas ? Wow. Jim Wiegel Jfwiegel@yahoo.com I can't say as I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. Daniel Boone On Jun 1, 2012, at 18:25, "Ann Shafer" <asgoodasitgets@hughes.net> wrote:
And I so enjoyed working with everyone in Fifth City but most especially Velma Brocks who is my daughter, Catherine's, godmother. Velma could say so much without saying anything. She and I handled the Fifth City payroll for awhile. Plus David and I had a wonderful time on the Fifth City to the World trip to the Bahamas so beautifully enabled and spiritized by Alice and Jim Baumbach. Remember Peggy who led the singing on our bus all the way there and back? I know the Fifth Citizens were not O:E but they were our colleagues and mentors. Ann Stewart Shafer
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Phylis Christmas
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Nancy Lanphear <nancy@songaia.com> wrote:
Dear Ones,
Our common memory is such a gift. Each of us can let go of some of our worry about loosing our own. Thanks for sharing your memories with me.
Love,
Nancy
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:48 AM, E B <marosel2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
Who can forget Dawn Lingo and Lynette Shanklin?
________________________________ From: Mary Laura Jones <mljones2022@gmail.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Friday, June 1, 2012 9:37 AM Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical
I learned so much from Lois Reeves and Emma Melton in the Cleveland Region. I am so grateful for their presence in our lives. Many things they said still make me smile. Their wisdom and leadership were very important in the ICA's work.
Mary Laura Jones
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:12 AM, McCabe, Diann A <dm14@txstate.edu> wrote:
Sharon Turner stands out for me. Vincent Scott and Mary. And deep colleague in Mississippi, the late Ruth Wilson.
Diann McCabe
On 6/1/12 8:17 AM, "Nancy Lanphear" <nancy@songaia.com> wrote:
Dear Randy,
I, too would appreciate hearing some of the stories about what it was like to be black in the Order. I remember Phoebe Reynolds, Christine Harris, and some of the children .... Tad and Todd Mueller, Eric Shropshire, Adam and Kaira Lingo, Emanuel Ward, Kevin Woodward ... I am sorry , who are the others who have slipped through my memory ...? Thank you Joyce and Randy
Nancy
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:55 AM, R Williams <rcwmbw@yahoo.com> wrote:
Joyce,
Your brief comment, in remembering Robert Shropshire, about what it was like to be black and to have been in the O:E has me wanting to hear more about what that experience was like, and trying to recall our black Order colleagues prior to our being dispersed around the globe, embracing cultures of color everywhere.
In addition to you, Carlos and Shropshire, I remember Larry Ward, Nadine Ward, Harold Williams and Richard whose last name was, I think,
Epson.
Other faces are pictured in my mind's eye whose names I cannot recall. Who were they?
My interest is peaked by the fact that the white majority, in the U.S at least, is shrinking and will likely soon no longer exist, combined with the fact that there is a glimmer of indication that cultural diversity of all kinds is coming to be not only tolerated but embraced by more and more people.
On behalf of the future, with an eye toward how all people may live together in peace on this flat, increasingly diverse and crowded planet, I would love to hear more of your reflections, as well as those of others, on what it was like then to be black and in the O:E and what, with 50 years of experience behind us, we all have learned.
A conversation like this could be a fitting tribute to Robert, Nadine, Harold and others now departed who have impacted our community and consciousness over the years.
Randy
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She was my roommate in 1969. On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 11:54 AM, R Williams <rcwmbw@yahoo.com> wrote:
I have a name in my head that I can't quite put a face with. Does the name *Marcella* *Buchanan*, or something like that, ring a bell with anyone?
Randy
"Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires." -Martin Buber (adapted) *From:* James Wiegel <jfwiegel@yahoo.com> *To:* Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> *Cc:* Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> *Sent:* Saturday, June 2, 2012 12:03 PM *Subject:* Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical
You sang on the bus all the way to the Bahamas ? Wow.
Jim Wiegel Jfwiegel@yahoo.com
I can't say as I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. Daniel Boone
On Jun 1, 2012, at 18:25, "Ann Shafer" <asgoodasitgets@hughes.net> wrote:
And I so enjoyed working with everyone in Fifth City but most especially Velma Brocks who is my daughter, Catherine's, godmother. Velma could say so much without saying anything. She and I handled the Fifth City payroll for awhile. Plus David and I had a wonderful time on the Fifth City to the World trip to the Bahamas so beautifully enabled and spiritized by Alice and Jim Baumbach. Remember Peggy who led the singing on our bus all the way there and back? I know the Fifth Citizens were not O:E but they were our colleagues and mentors. Ann Stewart Shafer
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Phylis Christmas
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Nancy Lanphear <nancy@songaia.com> wrote:
Dear Ones,
Our common memory is such a gift. Each of us can let go of some of our worry about loosing our own. Thanks for sharing your memories with me.
Love,
Nancy
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:48 AM, E B <marosel2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
Who can forget Dawn Lingo and Lynette Shanklin?
________________________________ From: Mary Laura Jones <mljones2022@gmail.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Friday, June 1, 2012 9:37 AM Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical
I learned so much from Lois Reeves and Emma Melton in the Cleveland Region. I am so grateful for their presence in our lives. Many things they said still make me smile. Their wisdom and leadership were very important in the ICA's work.
Mary Laura Jones
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:12 AM, McCabe, Diann A <dm14@txstate.edu>
wrote:
Sharon Turner stands out for me. Vincent Scott and Mary. And deep colleague in Mississippi, the late Ruth Wilson.
Diann McCabe
On 6/1/12 8:17 AM, "Nancy Lanphear" <nancy@songaia.com> wrote:
Dear Randy,
I, too would appreciate hearing some of the stories about what it was like to be black in the Order. I remember Phoebe Reynolds, Christine Harris, and some of the children .... Tad and Todd Mueller, Eric Shropshire, Adam and Kaira Lingo, Emanuel Ward, Kevin Woodward ... I am sorry , who are the others who have slipped through my memory ...? Thank you Joyce and Randy
Nancy
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:55 AM, R Williams <rcwmbw@yahoo.com> wrote:
Joyce,
Your brief comment, in remembering Robert Shropshire, about what it was like to be black and to have been in the O:E has me wanting to hear more about what that experience was like, and trying to recall our black Order colleagues prior to our being dispersed around the globe, embracing cultures of color everywhere.
In addition to you, Carlos and Shropshire, I remember Larry Ward, Nadine Ward, Harold Williams and Richard whose last name was, I think,
Epson.
Other faces are pictured in my mind's eye whose names I cannot recall. Who were they?
My interest is peaked by the fact that the white majority, in the U.S at least, is shrinking and will likely soon no longer exist, combined with the fact that there is a glimmer of indication that cultural diversity of all kinds is coming to be not only tolerated but embraced by more and more people.
On behalf of the future, with an eye toward how all people may live together in peace on this flat, increasingly diverse and crowded planet, I would love to hear more of your reflections, as well as those of others, on what it was like then to be black and in the O:E and what, with 50 years of experience behind us, we all have learned.
A conversation like this could be a fitting tribute to Robert, Nadine, Harold and others now departed who have impacted our community and consciousness over the years.
Randy
"Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires." -Martin Buber (adapted)
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Realize I left Marcella off the list I sent earlier—She was a force of beauty, strength, and humor in the Atlanta House in 74 or so. Went to Nairobi after that and returned to live in D.C. Is married and has beautiful daughters.--Diann McCabe From: Paula Philbrook <paula.philbrook@gmail.com<mailto:paula.philbrook@gmail.com>> Reply-To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net<mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net<mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>> Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical She was my roommate in 1969. On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 11:54 AM, R Williams <rcwmbw@yahoo.com<mailto:rcwmbw@yahoo.com>> wrote: I have a name in my head that I can't quite put a face with. Does the name Marcella Buchanan, or something like that, ring a bell with anyone? Randy "Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires." -Martin Buber (adapted) From: James Wiegel <jfwiegel@yahoo.com<mailto:jfwiegel@yahoo.com>> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net<mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>> Cc: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net<mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>> Sent: Saturday, June 2, 2012 12:03 PM Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical You sang on the bus all the way to the Bahamas ? Wow. Jim Wiegel Jfwiegel@yahoo.com<mailto:Jfwiegel@yahoo.com> I can't say as I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. Daniel Boone On Jun 1, 2012, at 18:25, "Ann Shafer" <asgoodasitgets@hughes.net<mailto:asgoodasitgets@hughes.net>> wrote:
And I so enjoyed working with everyone in Fifth City but most especially Velma Brocks who is my daughter, Catherine's, godmother. Velma could say so much without saying anything. She and I handled the Fifth City payroll for awhile. Plus David and I had a wonderful time on the Fifth City to the World trip to the Bahamas so beautifully enabled and spiritized by Alice and Jim Baumbach. Remember Peggy who led the singing on our bus all the way there and back? I know the Fifth Citizens were not O:E but they were our colleagues and mentors. Ann Stewart Shafer
-----Original Message----- From: oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net<mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net> [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net<mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net>] On Behalf Of David Scott Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 10:23 AM To: Order Ecumenical Community Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical
Phylis Christmas
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Nancy Lanphear <nancy@songaia.com<mailto:nancy@songaia.com>> wrote:
Dear Ones,
Our common memory is such a gift. Each of us can let go of some of our worry about loosing our own. Thanks for sharing your memories with me.
Love,
Nancy
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:48 AM, E B <marosel2000@yahoo.com<mailto:marosel2000@yahoo.com>> wrote:
Who can forget Dawn Lingo and Lynette Shanklin?
________________________________ From: Mary Laura Jones <mljones2022@gmail.com<mailto:mljones2022@gmail.com>> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net<mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>> Sent: Friday, June 1, 2012 9:37 AM Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical
I learned so much from Lois Reeves and Emma Melton in the Cleveland Region. I am so grateful for their presence in our lives. Many things they said still make me smile. Their wisdom and leadership were very important in the ICA's work.
Mary Laura Jones
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:12 AM, McCabe, Diann A <dm14@txstate.edu<mailto:dm14@txstate.edu>> wrote:
Sharon Turner stands out for me. Vincent Scott and Mary. And deep colleague in Mississippi, the late Ruth Wilson.
Diann McCabe
On 6/1/12 8:17 AM, "Nancy Lanphear" <nancy@songaia.com<mailto:nancy@songaia.com>> wrote:
Dear Randy,
I, too would appreciate hearing some of the stories about what it was like to be black in the Order. I remember Phoebe Reynolds, Christine Harris, and some of the children .... Tad and Todd Mueller, Eric Shropshire, Adam and Kaira Lingo, Emanuel Ward, Kevin Woodward ... I am sorry , who are the others who have slipped through my memory ...? Thank you Joyce and Randy
Nancy
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:55 AM, R Williams <rcwmbw@yahoo.com<mailto:rcwmbw@yahoo.com>> wrote:
Joyce,
Your brief comment, in remembering Robert Shropshire, about what it was like to be black and to have been in the O:E has me wanting to hear more about what that experience was like, and trying to recall our black Order colleagues prior to our being dispersed around the globe, embracing cultures of color everywhere.
In addition to you, Carlos and Shropshire, I remember Larry Ward, Nadine Ward, Harold Williams and Richard whose last name was, I think,
Epson.
Other faces are pictured in my mind's eye whose names I cannot recall. Who were they?
My interest is peaked by the fact that the white majority, in the U.S at least, is shrinking and will likely soon no longer exist, combined with the fact that there is a glimmer of indication that cultural diversity of all kinds is coming to be not only tolerated but embraced by more and more people.
On behalf of the future, with an eye toward how all people may live together in peace on this flat, increasingly diverse and crowded planet, I would love to hear more of your reflections, as well as those of others, on what it was like then to be black and in the O:E and what, with 50 years of experience behind us, we all have learned.
A conversation like this could be a fitting tribute to Robert, Nadine, Harold and others now departed who have impacted our community and consciousness over the years.
Randy
"Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires." -Martin Buber (adapted)
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And there is my beautiful daughter, Tabitha, who is now living in Baltimore soon to move to Denver, a successful government worker. She graduated from Kindergarten at the local school while we lived on Westside. Ann Shafer From: oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of McCabe, Diann A Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2012 1:09 PM To: Order Ecumenical Community Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical Realize I left Marcella off the list I sent earlier-She was a force of beauty, strength, and humor in the Atlanta House in 74 or so. Went to Nairobi after that and returned to live in D.C. Is married and has beautiful daughters.--Diann McCabe From: Paula Philbrook <paula.philbrook@gmail.com> Reply-To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical She was my roommate in 1969. On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 11:54 AM, R Williams <rcwmbw@yahoo.com> wrote: I have a name in my head that I can't quite put a face with. Does the name Marcella Buchanan, or something like that, ring a bell with anyone? Randy "Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires." -Martin Buber (adapted) From: James Wiegel <jfwiegel@yahoo.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Cc: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Saturday, June 2, 2012 12:03 PM Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical You sang on the bus all the way to the Bahamas ? Wow. Jim Wiegel Jfwiegel@yahoo.com I can't say as I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. Daniel Boone On Jun 1, 2012, at 18:25, "Ann Shafer" <asgoodasitgets@hughes.net> wrote:
And I so enjoyed working with everyone in Fifth City but most especially Velma Brocks who is my daughter, Catherine's, godmother. Velma could say so much without saying anything. She and I handled the Fifth City payroll for awhile. Plus David and I had a wonderful time on the Fifth City to the World trip to the Bahamas so beautifully enabled and spiritized by Alice and Jim Baumbach. Remember Peggy who led the singing on our bus all the way there and back? I know the Fifth Citizens were not O:E but they were our colleagues and mentors. Ann Stewart Shafer
-----Original Message----- From: oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of David Scott Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 10:23 AM To: Order Ecumenical Community Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical
Phylis Christmas
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Nancy Lanphear <nancy@songaia.com> wrote:
Dear Ones,
Our common memory is such a gift. Each of us can let go of some of our worry about loosing our own. Thanks for sharing your memories with me.
Love,
Nancy
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:48 AM, E B <marosel2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
Who can forget Dawn Lingo and Lynette Shanklin?
________________________________ From: Mary Laura Jones <mljones2022@gmail.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Friday, June 1, 2012 9:37 AM Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical
I learned so much from Lois Reeves and Emma Melton in the Cleveland Region. I am so grateful for their presence in our lives. Many things they said still make me smile. Their wisdom and leadership were very important in the ICA's work.
Mary Laura Jones
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:12 AM, McCabe, Diann A <dm14@txstate.edu>
wrote:
Sharon Turner stands out for me. Vincent Scott and Mary. And deep colleague in Mississippi, the late Ruth Wilson.
Diann McCabe
On 6/1/12 8:17 AM, "Nancy Lanphear" <nancy@songaia.com> wrote:
Dear Randy,
I, too would appreciate hearing some of the stories about what it was like to be black in the Order. I remember Phoebe Reynolds, Christine Harris, and some of the children .... Tad and Todd Mueller, Eric Shropshire, Adam and Kaira Lingo, Emanuel Ward, Kevin Woodward ... I am sorry , who are the others who have slipped through my memory ...? Thank you Joyce and Randy
Nancy
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:55 AM, R Williams <rcwmbw@yahoo.com> wrote:
Joyce,
Your brief comment, in remembering Robert Shropshire, about what it was like to be black and to have been in the O:E has me wanting to hear more about what that experience was like, and trying to recall our black Order colleagues prior to our being dispersed around the globe, embracing cultures of color everywhere.
In addition to you, Carlos and Shropshire, I remember Larry Ward, Nadine Ward, Harold Williams and Richard whose last name was, I think,
Epson.
Other faces are pictured in my mind's eye whose names I cannot recall. Who were they?
My interest is peaked by the fact that the white majority, in the U.S at least, is shrinking and will likely soon no longer exist, combined with the fact that there is a glimmer of indication that cultural diversity of all kinds is coming to be not only tolerated but embraced by more and more people.
On behalf of the future, with an eye toward how all people may live together in peace on this flat, increasingly diverse and crowded planet, I would love to hear more of your reflections, as well as those of others, on what it was like then to be black and in the O:E and what, with 50 years of experience behind us, we all have learned.
A conversation like this could be a fitting tribute to Robert, Nadine, Harold and others now departed who have impacted our community and consciousness over the years.
Randy
"Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires." -Martin Buber (adapted)
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In /Summer 70 and the following year I remember James Patterson and Michael Ware. mary h On Jun 3, 2012, at 6:23 PM, "Ann Shafer" <asgoodasitgets@hughes.net> wrote:
And there is my beautiful daughter, Tabitha, who is now living in Baltimore soon to move to Denver, a successful government worker. She graduated from Kindergarten at the local school while we lived on Westside. Ann Shafer
From: oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of McCabe, Diann A Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2012 1:09 PM To: Order Ecumenical Community Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical
Realize I left Marcella off the list I sent earlier—She was a force of beauty, strength, and humor in the Atlanta House in 74 or so. Went to Nairobi after that and returned to live in D.C. Is married and has beautiful daughters.--Diann McCabe
From: Paula Philbrook <paula.philbrook@gmail.com> Reply-To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical
She was my roommate in 1969.
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 11:54 AM, R Williams <rcwmbw@yahoo.com> wrote: I have a name in my head that I can't quite put a face with. Does the name Marcella Buchanan, or something like that, ring a bell with anyone?
Randy
"Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires." -Martin Buber (adapted) From: James Wiegel <jfwiegel@yahoo.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Cc: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Saturday, June 2, 2012 12:03 PM Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical
You sang on the bus all the way to the Bahamas ? Wow.
Jim Wiegel Jfwiegel@yahoo.com
I can't say as I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. Daniel Boone
On Jun 1, 2012, at 18:25, "Ann Shafer" <asgoodasitgets@hughes.net> wrote:
And I so enjoyed working with everyone in Fifth City but most especially Velma Brocks who is my daughter, Catherine's, godmother. Velma could say so much without saying anything. She and I handled the Fifth City payroll for awhile. Plus David and I had a wonderful time on the Fifth City to the World trip to the Bahamas so beautifully enabled and spiritized by Alice and Jim Baumbach. Remember Peggy who led the singing on our bus all the way there and back? I know the Fifth Citizens were not O:E but they were our colleagues and mentors. Ann Stewart Shafer
-----Original Message----- From: oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of David Scott Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 10:23 AM To: Order Ecumenical Community Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical
Phylis Christmas
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Nancy Lanphear <nancy@songaia.com> wrote:
Dear Ones,
Our common memory is such a gift. Each of us can let go of some of our worry about loosing our own. Thanks for sharing your memories with me.
Love,
Nancy
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:48 AM, E B <marosel2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
Who can forget Dawn Lingo and Lynette Shanklin?
________________________________ From: Mary Laura Jones <mljones2022@gmail.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Friday, June 1, 2012 9:37 AM Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical
I learned so much from Lois Reeves and Emma Melton in the Cleveland Region. I am so grateful for their presence in our lives. Many things they said still make me smile. Their wisdom and leadership were very important in the ICA's work.
Mary Laura Jones
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:12 AM, McCabe, Diann A <dm14@txstate.edu> wrote:
Sharon Turner stands out for me. Vincent Scott and Mary. And deep colleague in Mississippi, the late Ruth Wilson.
Diann McCabe
On 6/1/12 8:17 AM, "Nancy Lanphear" <nancy@songaia.com> wrote:
Dear Randy,
I, too would appreciate hearing some of the stories about what it was like to be black in the Order. I remember Phoebe Reynolds, Christine Harris, and some of the children .... Tad and Todd Mueller, Eric Shropshire, Adam and Kaira Lingo, Emanuel Ward, Kevin Woodward ... I am sorry , who are the others who have slipped through my memory ...? Thank you Joyce and Randy
Nancy
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:55 AM, R Williams <rcwmbw@yahoo.com> wrote:
Joyce,
Your brief comment, in remembering Robert Shropshire, about what it was like to be black and to have been in the O:E has me wanting to hear more about what that experience was like, and trying to recall our black Order colleagues prior to our being dispersed around the globe, embracing cultures of color everywhere.
In addition to you, Carlos and Shropshire, I remember Larry Ward, Nadine Ward, Harold Williams and Richard whose last name was, I think,
Epson.
Other faces are pictured in my mind's eye whose names I cannot recall. Who were they?
My interest is peaked by the fact that the white majority, in the U.S at least, is shrinking and will likely soon no longer exist, combined with the fact that there is a glimmer of indication that cultural diversity of all kinds is coming to be not only tolerated but embraced by more and more people.
On behalf of the future, with an eye toward how all people may live together in peace on this flat, increasingly diverse and crowded planet, I would love to hear more of your reflections, as well as those of others, on what it was like then to be black and in the O:E and what, with 50 years of experience behind us, we all have learned.
A conversation like this could be a fitting tribute to Robert, Nadine, Harold and others now departed who have impacted our community and consciousness over the years.
Randy
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Let's remember people from 5th City who were in many ways Order members. People like Lela Mosely, Ruth Carter and Lillie Fox. Herman _____ From: oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Mary Hampton Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 8:33 AM To: Order Ecumenical Community Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical In /Summer 70 and the following year I remember James Patterson and Michael Ware. mary h On Jun 3, 2012, at 6:23 PM, "Ann Shafer" <asgoodasitgets@hughes.net> wrote: And there is my beautiful daughter, Tabitha, who is now living in Baltimore soon to move to Denver, a successful government worker. She graduated from Kindergarten at the local school while we lived on Westside. Ann Shafer From: oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of McCabe, Diann A Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2012 1:09 PM To: Order Ecumenical Community Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical Realize I left Marcella off the list I sent earlier-She was a force of beauty, strength, and humor in the Atlanta House in 74 or so. Went to Nairobi after that and returned to live in D.C. Is married and has beautiful daughters.--Diann McCabe From: Paula Philbrook <paula.philbrook@gmail.com> Reply-To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical She was my roommate in 1969. On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 11:54 AM, R Williams <rcwmbw@yahoo.com> wrote: I have a name in my head that I can't quite put a face with. Does the name Marcella Buchanan, or something like that, ring a bell with anyone? Randy "Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires." -Martin Buber (adapted) From: James Wiegel <jfwiegel@yahoo.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Cc: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Saturday, June 2, 2012 12:03 PM Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical You sang on the bus all the way to the Bahamas ? Wow. Jim Wiegel Jfwiegel@yahoo.com I can't say as I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. Daniel Boone On Jun 1, 2012, at 18:25, "Ann Shafer" <asgoodasitgets@hughes.net> wrote:
And I so enjoyed working with everyone in Fifth City but most especially Velma Brocks who is my daughter, Catherine's, godmother. Velma could say so much without saying anything. She and I handled the Fifth City payroll for awhile. Plus David and I had a wonderful time on the Fifth City to the World trip to the Bahamas so beautifully enabled and spiritized by Alice and Jim Baumbach. Remember Peggy who led the singing on our bus all the way there and back? I know the Fifth Citizens were not O:E but they were our colleagues and mentors. Ann Stewart Shafer
-----Original Message----- From: oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of David Scott Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 10:23 AM To: Order Ecumenical Community Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical
Phylis Christmas
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Nancy Lanphear <nancy@songaia.com> wrote:
Dear Ones,
Our common memory is such a gift. Each of us can let go of some of our worry about loosing our own. Thanks for sharing your memories with me.
Love,
Nancy
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:48 AM, E B <marosel2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
Who can forget Dawn Lingo and Lynette Shanklin?
________________________________ From: Mary Laura Jones <mljones2022@gmail.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Friday, June 1, 2012 9:37 AM Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical
I learned so much from Lois Reeves and Emma Melton in the Cleveland Region. I am so grateful for their presence in our lives. Many things they said still make me smile. Their wisdom and leadership were very important in the ICA's work.
Mary Laura Jones
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:12 AM, McCabe, Diann A <dm14@txstate.edu>
wrote:
Sharon Turner stands out for me. Vincent Scott and Mary. And deep colleague in Mississippi, the late Ruth Wilson.
Diann McCabe
On 6/1/12 8:17 AM, "Nancy Lanphear" <nancy@songaia.com> wrote:
Dear Randy,
I, too would appreciate hearing some of the stories about what it was like to be black in the Order. I remember Phoebe Reynolds, Christine Harris, and some of the children .... Tad and Todd Mueller, Eric Shropshire, Adam and Kaira Lingo, Emanuel Ward, Kevin Woodward ... I am sorry , who are the others who have slipped through my memory ...? Thank you Joyce and Randy
Nancy
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:55 AM, R Williams <rcwmbw@yahoo.com> wrote:
Joyce,
Your brief comment, in remembering Robert Shropshire, about what it was like to be black and to have been in the O:E has me wanting to hear more about what that experience was like, and trying to recall our black Order colleagues prior to our being dispersed around the globe, embracing cultures of color everywhere.
In addition to you, Carlos and Shropshire, I remember Larry Ward, Nadine Ward, Harold Williams and Richard whose last name was, I think,
Epson.
Other faces are pictured in my mind's eye whose names I cannot recall. Who were they?
My interest is peaked by the fact that the white majority, in the U.S at least, is shrinking and will likely soon no longer exist, combined with the fact that there is a glimmer of indication that cultural diversity of all kinds is coming to be not only tolerated but embraced by more and more people.
On behalf of the future, with an eye toward how all people may live together in peace on this flat, increasingly diverse and crowded planet, I would love to hear more of your reflections, as well as those of others, on what it was like then to be black and in the O:E and what, with 50 years of experience behind us, we all have learned.
A conversation like this could be a fitting tribute to Robert, Nadine, Harold and others now departed who have impacted our community and consciousness over the years.
Randy
"Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires." -Martin Buber (adapted)
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Christine Harris and Melanie were with us in the 5th City House. I also remember James Mosely from the Milwaukee Region and Debra Mosely who was with us in the Washington DC House. _____ From: oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Mary Hampton Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 8:33 AM To: Order Ecumenical Community Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical In /Summer 70 and the following year I remember James Patterson and Michael Ware. mary h On Jun 3, 2012, at 6:23 PM, "Ann Shafer" <asgoodasitgets@hughes.net> wrote: And there is my beautiful daughter, Tabitha, who is now living in Baltimore soon to move to Denver, a successful government worker. She graduated from Kindergarten at the local school while we lived on Westside. Ann Shafer From: oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of McCabe, Diann A Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2012 1:09 PM To: Order Ecumenical Community Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical Realize I left Marcella off the list I sent earlier-She was a force of beauty, strength, and humor in the Atlanta House in 74 or so. Went to Nairobi after that and returned to live in D.C. Is married and has beautiful daughters.--Diann McCabe From: Paula Philbrook <paula.philbrook@gmail.com> Reply-To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical She was my roommate in 1969. On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 11:54 AM, R Williams <rcwmbw@yahoo.com> wrote: I have a name in my head that I can't quite put a face with. Does the name Marcella Buchanan, or something like that, ring a bell with anyone? Randy "Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires." -Martin Buber (adapted) From: James Wiegel <jfwiegel@yahoo.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Cc: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Saturday, June 2, 2012 12:03 PM Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical You sang on the bus all the way to the Bahamas ? Wow. Jim Wiegel Jfwiegel@yahoo.com I can't say as I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. Daniel Boone On Jun 1, 2012, at 18:25, "Ann Shafer" <asgoodasitgets@hughes.net> wrote:
And I so enjoyed working with everyone in Fifth City but most especially Velma Brocks who is my daughter, Catherine's, godmother. Velma could say so much without saying anything. She and I handled the Fifth City payroll for awhile. Plus David and I had a wonderful time on the Fifth City to the World trip to the Bahamas so beautifully enabled and spiritized by Alice and Jim Baumbach. Remember Peggy who led the singing on our bus all the way there and back? I know the Fifth Citizens were not O:E but they were our colleagues and mentors. Ann Stewart Shafer
-----Original Message----- From: oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of David Scott Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 10:23 AM To: Order Ecumenical Community Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical
Phylis Christmas
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Nancy Lanphear <nancy@songaia.com> wrote:
Dear Ones,
Our common memory is such a gift. Each of us can let go of some of our worry about loosing our own. Thanks for sharing your memories with me.
Love,
Nancy
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:48 AM, E B <marosel2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
Who can forget Dawn Lingo and Lynette Shanklin?
________________________________ From: Mary Laura Jones <mljones2022@gmail.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Friday, June 1, 2012 9:37 AM Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical
I learned so much from Lois Reeves and Emma Melton in the Cleveland Region. I am so grateful for their presence in our lives. Many things they said still make me smile. Their wisdom and leadership were very important in the ICA's work.
Mary Laura Jones
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:12 AM, McCabe, Diann A <dm14@txstate.edu>
wrote:
Sharon Turner stands out for me. Vincent Scott and Mary. And deep colleague in Mississippi, the late Ruth Wilson.
Diann McCabe
On 6/1/12 8:17 AM, "Nancy Lanphear" <nancy@songaia.com> wrote:
Dear Randy,
I, too would appreciate hearing some of the stories about what it was like to be black in the Order. I remember Phoebe Reynolds, Christine Harris, and some of the children .... Tad and Todd Mueller, Eric Shropshire, Adam and Kaira Lingo, Emanuel Ward, Kevin Woodward ... I am sorry , who are the others who have slipped through my memory ...? Thank you Joyce and Randy
Nancy
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:55 AM, R Williams <rcwmbw@yahoo.com> wrote:
Joyce,
Your brief comment, in remembering Robert Shropshire, about what it was like to be black and to have been in the O:E has me wanting to hear more about what that experience was like, and trying to recall our black Order colleagues prior to our being dispersed around the globe, embracing cultures of color everywhere.
In addition to you, Carlos and Shropshire, I remember Larry Ward, Nadine Ward, Harold Williams and Richard whose last name was, I think,
Epson.
Other faces are pictured in my mind's eye whose names I cannot recall. Who were they?
My interest is peaked by the fact that the white majority, in the U.S at least, is shrinking and will likely soon no longer exist, combined with the fact that there is a glimmer of indication that cultural diversity of all kinds is coming to be not only tolerated but embraced by more and more people.
On behalf of the future, with an eye toward how all people may live together in peace on this flat, increasingly diverse and crowded planet, I would love to hear more of your reflections, as well as those of others, on what it was like then to be black and in the O:E and what, with 50 years of experience behind us, we all have learned.
A conversation like this could be a fitting tribute to Robert, Nadine, Harold and others now departed who have impacted our community and consciousness over the years.
Randy
"Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires." -Martin Buber (adapted)
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I thought of Gene Beazely (sp?). How memorable he was _____ From: oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Lynda Cock Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 2:41 PM To: 'Order Ecumenical Community' Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical Christine Harris and Melanie were with us in the 5th City House. I also remember James Mosely from the Milwaukee Region and Debra Mosely who was with us in the Washington DC House. _____ From: oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Mary Hampton Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 8:33 AM To: Order Ecumenical Community Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical In /Summer 70 and the following year I remember James Patterson and Michael Ware. mary h On Jun 3, 2012, at 6:23 PM, "Ann Shafer" <asgoodasitgets@hughes.net> wrote: And there is my beautiful daughter, Tabitha, who is now living in Baltimore soon to move to Denver, a successful government worker. She graduated from Kindergarten at the local school while we lived on Westside. Ann Shafer From: oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of McCabe, Diann A Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2012 1:09 PM To: Order Ecumenical Community Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical Realize I left Marcella off the list I sent earlier-She was a force of beauty, strength, and humor in the Atlanta House in 74 or so. Went to Nairobi after that and returned to live in D.C. Is married and has beautiful daughters.--Diann McCabe From: Paula Philbrook <paula.philbrook@gmail.com> Reply-To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical She was my roommate in 1969. On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 11:54 AM, R Williams <rcwmbw@yahoo.com> wrote: I have a name in my head that I can't quite put a face with. Does the name Marcella Buchanan, or something like that, ring a bell with anyone? Randy "Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires." -Martin Buber (adapted) From: James Wiegel <jfwiegel@yahoo.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Cc: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Saturday, June 2, 2012 12:03 PM Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical You sang on the bus all the way to the Bahamas ? Wow. Jim Wiegel Jfwiegel@yahoo.com I can't say as I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. Daniel Boone On Jun 1, 2012, at 18:25, "Ann Shafer" <asgoodasitgets@hughes.net> wrote:
And I so enjoyed working with everyone in Fifth City but most especially Velma Brocks who is my daughter, Catherine's, godmother. Velma could say so much without saying anything. She and I handled the Fifth City payroll for awhile. Plus David and I had a wonderful time on the Fifth City to the World trip to the Bahamas so beautifully enabled and spiritized by Alice and Jim Baumbach. Remember Peggy who led the singing on our bus all the way there and back? I know the Fifth Citizens were not O:E but they were our colleagues and mentors. Ann Stewart Shafer
-----Original Message----- From: oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of David Scott Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 10:23 AM To: Order Ecumenical Community Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical
Phylis Christmas
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Nancy Lanphear <nancy@songaia.com> wrote:
Dear Ones,
Our common memory is such a gift. Each of us can let go of some of our worry about loosing our own. Thanks for sharing your memories with me.
Love,
Nancy
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:48 AM, E B <marosel2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
Who can forget Dawn Lingo and Lynette Shanklin?
________________________________ From: Mary Laura Jones <mljones2022@gmail.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Friday, June 1, 2012 9:37 AM Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical
I learned so much from Lois Reeves and Emma Melton in the Cleveland Region. I am so grateful for their presence in our lives. Many things they said still make me smile. Their wisdom and leadership were very important in the ICA's work.
Mary Laura Jones
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:12 AM, McCabe, Diann A <dm14@txstate.edu>
wrote:
Sharon Turner stands out for me. Vincent Scott and Mary. And deep colleague in Mississippi, the late Ruth Wilson.
Diann McCabe
On 6/1/12 8:17 AM, "Nancy Lanphear" <nancy@songaia.com> wrote:
Dear Randy,
I, too would appreciate hearing some of the stories about what it was like to be black in the Order. I remember Phoebe Reynolds, Christine Harris, and some of the children .... Tad and Todd Mueller, Eric Shropshire, Adam and Kaira Lingo, Emanuel Ward, Kevin Woodward ... I am sorry , who are the others who have slipped through my memory ...? Thank you Joyce and Randy
Nancy
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:55 AM, R Williams <rcwmbw@yahoo.com> wrote:
Joyce,
Your brief comment, in remembering Robert Shropshire, about what it was like to be black and to have been in the O:E has me wanting to hear more about what that experience was like, and trying to recall our black Order colleagues prior to our being dispersed around the globe, embracing cultures of color everywhere.
In addition to you, Carlos and Shropshire, I remember Larry Ward, Nadine Ward, Harold Williams and Richard whose last name was, I think,
Epson.
Other faces are pictured in my mind's eye whose names I cannot recall. Who were they?
My interest is peaked by the fact that the white majority, in the U.S at least, is shrinking and will likely soon no longer exist, combined with the fact that there is a glimmer of indication that cultural diversity of all kinds is coming to be not only tolerated but embraced by more and more people.
On behalf of the future, with an eye toward how all people may live together in peace on this flat, increasingly diverse and crowded planet, I would love to hear more of your reflections, as well as those of others, on what it was like then to be black and in the O:E and what, with 50 years of experience behind us, we all have learned.
A conversation like this could be a fitting tribute to Robert, Nadine, Harold and others now departed who have impacted our community and consciousness over the years.
Randy
"Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires." -Martin Buber (adapted)
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At 6:02 PM -0400 6/4/12, Lynda Cock wrote:
Christine Harris and Melanie were with us in the 5th City House. I also remember James Mosely from the Milwaukee Region and Debra Mosely who was with us in the Washington DC House.
Christine Harris and Melanie were in Conacaste, Guatemala, when I was there 1979-1980. Melanie was 8 years old at the time. Ruth --
Dear Colleagues, Larry and I were married in Nairobi Kenya and our two children Lloyd and Lela were both born in Nairobi. Infact, Lloyd Philbrook could speak greetings in Kiswahili, Kikamba, Kikuyu and probably Kiluyo and other languages taught to him by HDTI participants while living in Kamweleni, Kenya...as well as English when he was only two or three having been born in the Nairobi hospital and living in Kenya most of his life. When I asked why he did not speak those languages to me, he said, you speak English to me. I took him back to Kemper in the summer and he trusted the black staff as a toddler in day care, or so it seemed to me. I don't remember her name, may be it was Phybee, but we had a black staff working in the preschool at Kemper and I always found Lloyd with her when I picked him up. She said when he woke up from nap he would always come and sit on her lap so they became good friends. My mom and sisters volunteered to care for him and I sent him with Ray Spencer and Jill Egland to Los Angeles (if memory serves me correctly) and he went with them without hesitation too.He was preoccupied with water and electricity in California. He wanted to know where it came from and where was the generator and where the water went instead of to a kitchen garden. My dad laughed when he showed him the town water tank and the huge pump from the ground and the the sewer drain at the curb in front of the house. Once he ran around the house looking for a jerrycan (20 liter plastic container) when it rained because we always collected all the rain water and stored it in jerrycans in Kamweleni. My parents were bemused and puzzled. He did not know what to do with a hamburger at McDonalds. He took it apart and ate the meat, but not the bread. He called french fries chips because we would once in a while go to Machakos town for sausage and chips. But he did not eat cold cereal with milk. My mother called me and asked what he ate. I answered everything. Then she told me what he was doing. So I told her to make him soupy grits with milk and butter for breakfast and make all his food like a stew. She called back later to say he loved the grits and bread with peanut butter and the stew works just fine. I told her he eats any kind of cooked egg, but I usually scrambled it. He will drink milk at room temperature or warmed and mangos or bananas. He called ice cream hot as a temperature because never had anything frozen before. He loved the refrigerator with ice cubes and water coming out of the door. I think he knew more black people than white people while growing up, but we had plenty of folks around the training center and Nairobi, Filipinos, Indians from India, British, Caucasian Americans, Afro Americans, and Japanese American. Lela grew up in the Philippines and Malaysia as a toddler and attended most of her education in Taiwan. But both Lloyd and Lela knew the Kemper building as their second home with built in cousins with the Philbrook/Otto family in residence most every summer. Remember the African contingent that came to USA for that summer program in Kemper! OMG, Benadetta, a girl from Machakos who ran a race in Chicago barefoot and won. David Mbulu who lives in Scotland now, or Sam and Ester Were, or Issac Kariuki, or Joshua or Henry... the hundreds of faces and names who appear like it was yesterday as the New Village Movement. We really were the rainbow coalition before that term came into being for which I am always grateful. What does it mean to be a global presence now? I still try to think global and act locally when I build models or constructs in training. How would you work in China? Hope to see y'all in Nepal this year! Evelyn Kurihara Philbrook On 6/4/2012 2:09 AM, McCabe, Diann A wrote:
Realize I left Marcella off the list I sent earlier---She was a force of beauty, strength, and humor in the Atlanta House in 74 or so. Went to Nairobi after that and returned to live in D.C. Is married and has beautiful daughters.--Diann McCabe
From: Paula Philbrook <paula.philbrook@gmail.com <mailto:paula.philbrook@gmail.com>> Reply-To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>> Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical
She was my roommate in 1969.
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 11:54 AM, R Williams <rcwmbw@yahoo.com <mailto:rcwmbw@yahoo.com>> wrote:
I have a name in my head that I can't quite put a face with. Does the name _Marcella_ _Buchanan_, or something like that, ring a bell with anyone? Randy "Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires." -Martin Buber (adapted) *From:* James Wiegel <jfwiegel@yahoo.com <mailto:jfwiegel@yahoo.com>> *To:* Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>> *Cc:* Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>> *Sent:* Saturday, June 2, 2012 12:03 PM *Subject:* Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical
You sang on the bus all the way to the Bahamas ? Wow.
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I can't say as I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. Daniel Boone
On Jun 1, 2012, at 18:25, "Ann Shafer" <asgoodasitgets@hughes.net <mailto:asgoodasitgets@hughes.net>> wrote:
> And I so enjoyed working with everyone in Fifth City but most especially > Velma Brocks who is my daughter, Catherine's, godmother. Velma could say so > much without saying anything. She and I handled the Fifth City payroll for > awhile. Plus David and I had a wonderful time on the Fifth City to the World > trip to the Bahamas so beautifully enabled and spiritized by Alice and Jim > Baumbach. Remember Peggy who led the singing on our bus all the way there > and back? I know the Fifth Citizens were not O:E but they were our > colleagues and mentors. Ann Stewart Shafer > > -----Original Message----- > From: oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net> > [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net>] On Behalf Of David Scott > Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 10:23 AM > To: Order Ecumenical Community > Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical > > Phylis Christmas > > On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Nancy Lanphear <nancy@songaia.com <mailto:nancy@songaia.com>> wrote: >> Dear Ones, >> >> Our common memory is such a gift. Each of us can let go of some of >> our worry about loosing our own. Thanks for sharing your memories with > me. >> >> Love, >> >> Nancy >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:48 AM, E B <marosel2000@yahoo.com <mailto:marosel2000@yahoo.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Who can forget Dawn Lingo and Lynette Shanklin? >>> >>> ________________________________ >>> From: Mary Laura Jones <mljones2022@gmail.com <mailto:mljones2022@gmail.com>> >>> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>> >>> Sent: Friday, June 1, 2012 9:37 AM >>> Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical >>> >>> I learned so much from Lois Reeves and Emma Melton in the Cleveland >>> Region. I am so grateful for their presence in our lives. Many things >>> they said still make me smile. Their wisdom and leadership were very >>> important in the ICA's work. >>> >>> Mary Laura Jones >>> >>> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:12 AM, McCabe, Diann A <dm14@txstate.edu <mailto:dm14@txstate.edu>> wrote: >>> >>> Sharon Turner stands out for me. Vincent Scott and Mary. And deep >>> colleague in Mississippi, the late Ruth Wilson. >>> >>> Diann McCabe >>> >>> >>> >>> On 6/1/12 8:17 AM, "Nancy Lanphear" <nancy@songaia.com <mailto:nancy@songaia.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Dear Randy, >>> >>> I, too would appreciate hearing some of the stories about what it was >>> like to be black in the Order. I remember Phoebe Reynolds, Christine >>> Harris, and some of the children .... Tad and Todd Mueller, Eric >>> Shropshire, Adam and Kaira Lingo, Emanuel Ward, Kevin Woodward ... >>> I am sorry , who are the others who have slipped through my memory >>> ...? Thank you Joyce and Randy >>> >>> Nancy >>> >>> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:55 AM, R Williams <rcwmbw@yahoo.com <mailto:rcwmbw@yahoo.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Joyce, >>> >>> Your brief comment, in remembering Robert Shropshire, about what it >>> was like to be black and to have been in the O:E has me wanting to >>> hear more about what that experience was like, and trying to recall >>> our black Order colleagues prior to our being dispersed around the >>> globe, embracing cultures of color everywhere. >>> >>> In addition to you, Carlos and Shropshire, I remember Larry Ward, >>> Nadine Ward, Harold Williams and Richard whose last name was, I think, > Epson. >>> Other faces are pictured in my mind's eye whose names I cannot >>> recall. Who were they? >>> >>> My interest is peaked by the fact that the white majority, in the U.S >>> at least, is shrinking and will likely soon no longer exist, combined >>> with the fact that there is a glimmer of indication that cultural >>> diversity of all kinds is coming to be not only tolerated but >>> embraced by more and more people. >>> >>> On behalf of the future, with an eye toward how all people may live >>> together in peace on this flat, increasingly diverse and crowded >>> planet, I would love to hear more of your reflections, as well as >>> those of others, on what it was like then to be black and in the O:E >>> and what, with >>> 50 years of experience behind us, we all have learned. >>> >>> A conversation like this could be a fitting tribute to Robert, >>> Nadine, Harold and others now departed who have impacted our >>> community and consciousness over the years. >>> >>> Randy >>> >>> "Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in >>> the world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it > desires." >>> -Martin Buber (adapted) >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OE mailing list >>> OE@lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net> >>> http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OE mailing list >>> OE@lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net> >>> http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OE mailing list >>> OE@lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net> >>> http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OE mailing list >>> OE@lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net> >>> http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OE mailing list >> OE@lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net> >> http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net >> > > > > -- > Margaret and David Scott > Flathead Valley College > _______________________________________________ > OE mailing list > OE@lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net> > http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net > > _______________________________________________ > OE mailing list > OE@lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net> > http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE@lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net> http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net
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This is a wonderful recollection, Evelyn. Thank you, Diann McCabe From: Evelyn Philbrook <joyful52@gmail.com<mailto:joyful52@gmail.com>> Reply-To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net<mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net<mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>> Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black, (or Yellow and White) in the Order Ecumenical Dear Colleagues, Larry and I were married in Nairobi Kenya and our two children Lloyd and Lela were both born in Nairobi. Infact, Lloyd Philbrook could speak greetings in Kiswahili, Kikamba, Kikuyu and probably Kiluyo and other languages taught to him by HDTI participants while living in Kamweleni, Kenya...as well as English when he was only two or three having been born in the Nairobi hospital and living in Kenya most of his life. When I asked why he did not speak those languages to me, he said, you speak English to me. I took him back to Kemper in the summer and he trusted the black staff as a toddler in day care, or so it seemed to me. I don't remember her name, may be it was Phybee, but we had a black staff working in the preschool at Kemper and I always found Lloyd with her when I picked him up. She said when he woke up from nap he would always come and sit on her lap so they became good friends. My mom and sisters volunteered to care for him and I sent him with Ray Spencer and Jill Egland to Los Angeles (if memory serves me correctly) and he went with them without hesitation too.He was preoccupied with water and electricity in California. He wanted to know where it came from and where was the generator and where the water went instead of to a kitchen garden. My dad laughed when he showed him the town water tank and the huge pump from the ground and the the sewer drain at the curb in front of the house. Once he ran around the house looking for a jerrycan (20 liter plastic container) when it rained because we always collected all the rain water and stored it in jerrycans in Kamweleni. My parents were bemused and puzzled. He did not know what to do with a hamburger at McDonalds. He took it apart and ate the meat, but not the bread. He called french fries chips because we would once in a while go to Machakos town for sausage and chips. But he did not eat cold cereal with milk. My mother called me and asked what he ate. I answered everything. Then she told me what he was doing. So I told her to make him soupy grits with milk and butter for breakfast and make all his food like a stew. She called back later to say he loved the grits and bread with peanut butter and the stew works just fine. I told her he eats any kind of cooked egg, but I usually scrambled it. He will drink milk at room temperature or warmed and mangos or bananas. He called ice cream hot as a temperature because never had anything frozen before. He loved the refrigerator with ice cubes and water coming out of the door. I think he knew more black people than white people while growing up, but we had plenty of folks around the training center and Nairobi, Filipinos, Indians from India, British, Caucasian Americans, Afro Americans, and Japanese American. Lela grew up in the Philippines and Malaysia as a toddler and attended most of her education in Taiwan. But both Lloyd and Lela knew the Kemper building as their second home with built in cousins with the Philbrook/Otto family in residence most every summer. Remember the African contingent that came to USA for that summer program in Kemper! OMG, Benadetta, a girl from Machakos who ran a race in Chicago barefoot and won. David Mbulu who lives in Scotland now, or Sam and Ester Were, or Issac Kariuki, or Joshua or Henry... the hundreds of faces and names who appear like it was yesterday as the New Village Movement. We really were the rainbow coalition before that term came into being for which I am always grateful. What does it mean to be a global presence now? I still try to think global and act locally when I build models or constructs in training. How would you work in China? Hope to see y'all in Nepal this year! Evelyn Kurihara Philbrook On 6/4/2012 2:09 AM, McCabe, Diann A wrote: Realize I left Marcella off the list I sent earlier—She was a force of beauty, strength, and humor in the Atlanta House in 74 or so. Went to Nairobi after that and returned to live in D.C. Is married and has beautiful daughters.--Diann McCabe From: Paula Philbrook <paula.philbrook@gmail.com<mailto:paula.philbrook@gmail.com>> Reply-To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net<mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net<mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>> Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical She was my roommate in 1969. On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 11:54 AM, R Williams <rcwmbw@yahoo.com<mailto:rcwmbw@yahoo.com>> wrote: I have a name in my head that I can't quite put a face with. Does the name Marcella Buchanan, or something like that, ring a bell with anyone? Randy "Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires." -Martin Buber (adapted) From: James Wiegel <jfwiegel@yahoo.com<mailto:jfwiegel@yahoo.com>> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net<mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>> Cc: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net<mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>> Sent: Saturday, June 2, 2012 12:03 PM Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical You sang on the bus all the way to the Bahamas ? Wow. Jim Wiegel Jfwiegel@yahoo.com<mailto:Jfwiegel@yahoo.com> I can't say as I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. Daniel Boone On Jun 1, 2012, at 18:25, "Ann Shafer" <asgoodasitgets@hughes.net<mailto:asgoodasitgets@hughes.net>> wrote:
And I so enjoyed working with everyone in Fifth City but most especially Velma Brocks who is my daughter, Catherine's, godmother. Velma could say so much without saying anything. She and I handled the Fifth City payroll for awhile. Plus David and I had a wonderful time on the Fifth City to the World trip to the Bahamas so beautifully enabled and spiritized by Alice and Jim Baumbach. Remember Peggy who led the singing on our bus all the way there and back? I know the Fifth Citizens were not O:E but they were our colleagues and mentors. Ann Stewart Shafer
-----Original Message----- From: oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net<mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net> [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net<mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net>] On Behalf Of David Scott Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 10:23 AM To: Order Ecumenical Community Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical
Phylis Christmas
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Nancy Lanphear <nancy@songaia.com<mailto:nancy@songaia.com>> wrote:
Dear Ones,
Our common memory is such a gift. Each of us can let go of some of our worry about loosing our own. Thanks for sharing your memories with me.
Love,
Nancy
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:48 AM, E B <marosel2000@yahoo.com<mailto:marosel2000@yahoo.com>> wrote:
Who can forget Dawn Lingo and Lynette Shanklin?
________________________________ From: Mary Laura Jones <mljones2022@gmail.com<mailto:mljones2022@gmail.com>> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net<mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>> Sent: Friday, June 1, 2012 9:37 AM Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical
I learned so much from Lois Reeves and Emma Melton in the Cleveland Region. I am so grateful for their presence in our lives. Many things they said still make me smile. Their wisdom and leadership were very important in the ICA's work.
Mary Laura Jones
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:12 AM, McCabe, Diann A <dm14@txstate.edu<mailto:dm14@txstate.edu>> wrote:
Sharon Turner stands out for me. Vincent Scott and Mary. And deep colleague in Mississippi, the late Ruth Wilson.
Diann McCabe
On 6/1/12 8:17 AM, "Nancy Lanphear" <nancy@songaia.com<mailto:nancy@songaia.com>> wrote:
Dear Randy,
I, too would appreciate hearing some of the stories about what it was like to be black in the Order. I remember Phoebe Reynolds, Christine Harris, and some of the children .... Tad and Todd Mueller, Eric Shropshire, Adam and Kaira Lingo, Emanuel Ward, Kevin Woodward ... I am sorry , who are the others who have slipped through my memory ...? Thank you Joyce and Randy
Nancy
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:55 AM, R Williams <rcwmbw@yahoo.com<mailto:rcwmbw@yahoo.com>> wrote:
Joyce,
Your brief comment, in remembering Robert Shropshire, about what it was like to be black and to have been in the O:E has me wanting to hear more about what that experience was like, and trying to recall our black Order colleagues prior to our being dispersed around the globe, embracing cultures of color everywhere.
In addition to you, Carlos and Shropshire, I remember Larry Ward, Nadine Ward, Harold Williams and Richard whose last name was, I think,
Epson.
Other faces are pictured in my mind's eye whose names I cannot recall. Who were they?
My interest is peaked by the fact that the white majority, in the U.S at least, is shrinking and will likely soon no longer exist, combined with the fact that there is a glimmer of indication that cultural diversity of all kinds is coming to be not only tolerated but embraced by more and more people.
On behalf of the future, with an eye toward how all people may live together in peace on this flat, increasingly diverse and crowded planet, I would love to hear more of your reflections, as well as those of others, on what it was like then to be black and in the O:E and what, with 50 years of experience behind us, we all have learned.
A conversation like this could be a fitting tribute to Robert, Nadine, Harold and others now departed who have impacted our community and consciousness over the years.
Randy
"Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires." -Martin Buber (adapted)
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Yes, I'd totally forgotten Phoebe Reynolds, a lovely old soul. She had narcolepsy and would often nod off during a collegium - usually at about the point where a few of us were a little jealous that she had a good excuse! Yes, my kids loved her too. Sunny Sunny Walker SunWalker Enterprises 303-587-3017 (cell) 303-671-0704 (home/office) sunwalker@comcast.net Aurora, CO No mattter how far you've gone down the wrong road, turn back. ~ Turkish Proverb _____ From: oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of McCabe, Diann A Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2012 9:14 PM To: Order Ecumenical Community Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black, (or Yellow and White) in the Order Ecumenical This is a wonderful recollection, Evelyn. Thank you, Diann McCabe From: Evelyn Philbrook <joyful52@gmail.com> Reply-To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black, (or Yellow and White) in the Order Ecumenical Dear Colleagues, Larry and I were married in Nairobi Kenya and our two children Lloyd and Lela were both born in Nairobi. Infact, Lloyd Philbrook could speak greetings in Kiswahili, Kikamba, Kikuyu and probably Kiluyo and other languages taught to him by HDTI participants while living in Kamweleni, Kenya...as well as English when he was only two or three having been born in the Nairobi hospital and living in Kenya most of his life. When I asked why he did not speak those languages to me, he said, you speak English to me. I took him back to Kemper in the summer and he trusted the black staff as a toddler in day care, or so it seemed to me. I don't remember her name, may be it was Phybee, but we had a black staff working in the preschool at Kemper and I always found Lloyd with her when I picked him up. She said when he woke up from nap he would always come and sit on her lap so they became good friends. My mom and sisters volunteered to care for him and I sent him with Ray Spencer and Jill Egland to Los Angeles (if memory serves me correctly) and he went with them without hesitation too.He was preoccupied with water and electricity in California. He wanted to know where it came from and where was the generator and where the water went instead of to a kitchen garden. My dad laughed when he showed him the town water tank and the huge pump from the ground and the the sewer drain at the curb in front of the house. Once he ran around the house looking for a jerrycan (20 liter plastic container) when it rained because we always collected all the rain water and stored it in jerrycans in Kamweleni. My parents were bemused and puzzled. He did not know what to do with a hamburger at McDonalds. He took it apart and ate the meat, but not the bread. He called french fries chips because we would once in a while go to Machakos town for sausage and chips. But he did not eat cold cereal with milk. My mother called me and asked what he ate. I answered everything. Then she told me what he was doing. So I told her to make him soupy grits with milk and butter for breakfast and make all his food like a stew. She called back later to say he loved the grits and bread with peanut butter and the stew works just fine. I told her he eats any kind of cooked egg, but I usually scrambled it. He will drink milk at room temperature or warmed and mangos or bananas. He called ice cream hot as a temperature because never had anything frozen before. He loved the refrigerator with ice cubes and water coming out of the door. I think he knew more black people than white people while growing up, but we had plenty of folks around the training center and Nairobi, Filipinos, Indians from India, British, Caucasian Americans, Afro Americans, and Japanese American. Lela grew up in the Philippines and Malaysia as a toddler and attended most of her education in Taiwan. But both Lloyd and Lela knew the Kemper building as their second home with built in cousins with the Philbrook/Otto family in residence most every summer. Remember the African contingent that came to USA for that summer program in Kemper! OMG, Benadetta, a girl from Machakos who ran a race in Chicago barefoot and won. David Mbulu who lives in Scotland now, or Sam and Ester Were, or Issac Kariuki, or Joshua or Henry... the hundreds of faces and names who appear like it was yesterday as the New Village Movement. We really were the rainbow coalition before that term came into being for which I am always grateful. What does it mean to be a global presence now? I still try to think global and act locally when I build models or constructs in training. How would you work in China? Hope to see y'all in Nepal this year! Evelyn Kurihara Philbrook On 6/4/2012 2:09 AM, McCabe, Diann A wrote: Realize I left Marcella off the list I sent earlier-She was a force of beauty, strength, and humor in the Atlanta House in 74 or so. Went to Nairobi after that and returned to live in D.C. Is married and has beautiful daughters.--Diann McCabe From: Paula Philbrook <paula.philbrook@gmail.com> Reply-To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical She was my roommate in 1969. On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 11:54 AM, R Williams <rcwmbw@yahoo.com> wrote: I have a name in my head that I can't quite put a face with. Does the name Marcella Buchanan, or something like that, ring a bell with anyone? Randy "Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires." -Martin Buber (adapted) From: James Wiegel <jfwiegel@yahoo.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Cc: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Saturday, June 2, 2012 12:03 PM Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical You sang on the bus all the way to the Bahamas ? Wow. Jim Wiegel Jfwiegel@yahoo.com I can't say as I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. Daniel Boone On Jun 1, 2012, at 18:25, "Ann Shafer" <asgoodasitgets@hughes.net> wrote:
And I so enjoyed working with everyone in Fifth City but most especially Velma Brocks who is my daughter, Catherine's, godmother. Velma could say so much without saying anything. She and I handled the Fifth City payroll for awhile. Plus David and I had a wonderful time on the Fifth City to the World trip to the Bahamas so beautifully enabled and spiritized by Alice and Jim Baumbach. Remember Peggy who led the singing on our bus all the way there and back? I know the Fifth Citizens were not O:E but they were our colleagues and mentors. Ann Stewart Shafer
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On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Nancy Lanphear <nancy@songaia.com> wrote:
Dear Ones,
Our common memory is such a gift. Each of us can let go of some of our worry about loosing our own. Thanks for sharing your memories with me.
Love,
Nancy
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:48 AM, E B <marosel2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
Who can forget Dawn Lingo and Lynette Shanklin?
________________________________ From: Mary Laura Jones <mljones2022@gmail.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Friday, June 1, 2012 9:37 AM Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical
I learned so much from Lois Reeves and Emma Melton in the Cleveland Region. I am so grateful for their presence in our lives. Many things they said still make me smile. Their wisdom and leadership were very important in the ICA's work.
Mary Laura Jones
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:12 AM, McCabe, Diann A <dm14@txstate.edu>
wrote:
Sharon Turner stands out for me. Vincent Scott and Mary. And deep colleague in Mississippi, the late Ruth Wilson.
Diann McCabe
On 6/1/12 8:17 AM, "Nancy Lanphear" <nancy@songaia.com> wrote:
Dear Randy,
I, too would appreciate hearing some of the stories about what it was like to be black in the Order. I remember Phoebe Reynolds, Christine Harris, and some of the children .... Tad and Todd Mueller, Eric Shropshire, Adam and Kaira Lingo, Emanuel Ward, Kevin Woodward ... I am sorry , who are the others who have slipped through my memory ...? Thank you Joyce and Randy
Nancy
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:55 AM, R Williams <rcwmbw@yahoo.com> wrote:
Joyce,
Your brief comment, in remembering Robert Shropshire, about what it was like to be black and to have been in the O:E has me wanting to hear more about what that experience was like, and trying to recall our black Order colleagues prior to our being dispersed around the globe, embracing cultures of color everywhere.
In addition to you, Carlos and Shropshire, I remember Larry Ward, Nadine Ward, Harold Williams and Richard whose last name was, I think,
Epson.
Other faces are pictured in my mind's eye whose names I cannot recall. Who were they?
My interest is peaked by the fact that the white majority, in the U.S at least, is shrinking and will likely soon no longer exist, combined with the fact that there is a glimmer of indication that cultural diversity of all kinds is coming to be not only tolerated but embraced by more and more people.
On behalf of the future, with an eye toward how all people may live together in peace on this flat, increasingly diverse and crowded planet, I would love to hear more of your reflections, as well as those of others, on what it was like then to be black and in the O:E and what, with 50 years of experience behind us, we all have learned.
A conversation like this could be a fitting tribute to Robert, Nadine, Harold and others now departed who have impacted our community and consciousness over the years.
Randy
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Bruce Williams here. I am remembering a dear Philadelphia colleague, Myrtle Roy, who joined the Order and went to Nairobi. While there she was stricken with an illness that left her comatose. She was flown back to Philadephia and some years later passed away. Bruce
Yes, we did, Jim, the Fifth City to the World trip where we took the bus from Chicago to Miami. We chartered a bus. The whole trip cost each person $200. We raffled off one trip. I organized the itinerary, then Alice and Jim Baumbach spiritized it. We had so much fun. When the ship arrived in Nassau, the Bahamian Minister of Tourism met the ship and said he was there to escort the Fifth Citizens. Then he took us on a private tour of Nassau and a village they were recreating to look like 100 years ago or so. So much fun. We ate at colleagues' homes and churches all the way down and back and slept on the bus - no stops for sleeping until we got on the ship. Each cabin was 4 beds, 2 above and 2 below, and was for either men or for women. And get this - the line was the Costa Line, the one that just had that awful accident in the Mediterranean. But we had no troubles at all, just a lot of fun. One lady from Fifth City whose name I don't remember had only one leg and got around on crutches. She did really well. Watching the Fifth City women flirt with the Italian waiters on the ship (and vice versa of course) was great. Pina coladas cost only 80 cents each on the ship. That I remember! The year was 1974. Ann -----Original Message----- From: oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of James Wiegel Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2012 12:03 PM To: Order Ecumenical Community Cc: Order Ecumenical Community Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical You sang on the bus all the way to the Bahamas ? Wow. Jim Wiegel Jfwiegel@yahoo.com I can't say as I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. Daniel Boone On Jun 1, 2012, at 18:25, "Ann Shafer" <asgoodasitgets@hughes.net> wrote:
And I so enjoyed working with everyone in Fifth City but most especially Velma Brocks who is my daughter, Catherine's, godmother. Velma could say so much without saying anything. She and I handled the Fifth City payroll for awhile. Plus David and I had a wonderful time on the Fifth City to the World trip to the Bahamas so beautifully enabled and spiritized by Alice and Jim Baumbach. Remember Peggy who led the singing on our bus all the way there and back? I know the Fifth Citizens were not O:E but they were our colleagues and mentors. Ann Stewart Shafer
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Phylis Christmas
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Nancy Lanphear <nancy@songaia.com> wrote:
Dear Ones,
Our common memory is such a gift. Each of us can let go of some of our worry about loosing our own. Thanks for sharing your memories with me.
Love,
Nancy
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:48 AM, E B <marosel2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
Who can forget Dawn Lingo and Lynette Shanklin?
________________________________ From: Mary Laura Jones <mljones2022@gmail.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Friday, June 1, 2012 9:37 AM Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical
I learned so much from Lois Reeves and Emma Melton in the Cleveland Region. I am so grateful for their presence in our lives. Many things they said still make me smile. Their wisdom and leadership were very important in the ICA's work.
Mary Laura Jones
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:12 AM, McCabe, Diann A <dm14@txstate.edu>
wrote:
Sharon Turner stands out for me. Vincent Scott and Mary. And deep colleague in Mississippi, the late Ruth Wilson.
Diann McCabe
On 6/1/12 8:17 AM, "Nancy Lanphear" <nancy@songaia.com> wrote:
Dear Randy,
I, too would appreciate hearing some of the stories about what it was like to be black in the Order. I remember Phoebe Reynolds, Christine Harris, and some of the children .... Tad and Todd Mueller,
Eric
Shropshire, Adam and Kaira Lingo, Emanuel Ward, Kevin Woodward ... I am sorry , who are the others who have slipped through my memory ...? Thank you Joyce and Randy
Nancy
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:55 AM, R Williams <rcwmbw@yahoo.com> wrote:
Joyce,
Your brief comment, in remembering Robert Shropshire, about what it was like to be black and to have been in the O:E has me wanting to hear more about what that experience was like, and trying to recall our black Order colleagues prior to our being dispersed around the globe, embracing cultures of color everywhere.
In addition to you, Carlos and Shropshire, I remember Larry Ward, Nadine Ward, Harold Williams and Richard whose last name was, I think, Epson. Other faces are pictured in my mind's eye whose names I cannot recall. Who were they?
My interest is peaked by the fact that the white majority, in the U.S at least, is shrinking and will likely soon no longer exist, combined with the fact that there is a glimmer of indication that cultural diversity of all kinds is coming to be not only tolerated but embraced by more and more people.
On behalf of the future, with an eye toward how all people may live together in peace on this flat, increasingly diverse and crowded planet, I would love to hear more of your reflections, as well as those of others, on what it was like then to be black and in the O:E and what, with 50 years of experience behind us, we all have learned.
A conversation like this could be a fitting tribute to Robert, Nadine, Harold and others now departed who have impacted our community and consciousness over the years.
Randy
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Helen Estridge was her name. -----Original Message----- From: oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Ann Shafer Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2012 8:32 PM To: 'Order Ecumenical Community' Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical Yes, we did, Jim, the Fifth City to the World trip where we took the bus from Chicago to Miami. We chartered a bus. The whole trip cost each person $200. We raffled off one trip. I organized the itinerary, then Alice and Jim Baumbach spiritized it. We had so much fun. When the ship arrived in Nassau, the Bahamian Minister of Tourism met the ship and said he was there to escort the Fifth Citizens. Then he took us on a private tour of Nassau and a village they were recreating to look like 100 years ago or so. So much fun. We ate at colleagues' homes and churches all the way down and back and slept on the bus - no stops for sleeping until we got on the ship. Each cabin was 4 beds, 2 above and 2 below, and was for either men or for women. And get this - the line was the Costa Line, the one that just had that awful accident in the Mediterranean. But we had no troubles at all, just a lot of fun. One lady from Fifth City whose name I don't remember had only one leg and got around on crutches. She did really well. Watching the Fifth City women flirt with the Italian waiters on the ship (and vice versa of course) was great. Pina coladas cost only 80 cents each on the ship. That I remember! The year was 1974. Ann -----Original Message----- From: oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of James Wiegel Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2012 12:03 PM To: Order Ecumenical Community Cc: Order Ecumenical Community Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical You sang on the bus all the way to the Bahamas ? Wow. Jim Wiegel Jfwiegel@yahoo.com I can't say as I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. Daniel Boone On Jun 1, 2012, at 18:25, "Ann Shafer" <asgoodasitgets@hughes.net> wrote:
And I so enjoyed working with everyone in Fifth City but most especially Velma Brocks who is my daughter, Catherine's, godmother. Velma could say so much without saying anything. She and I handled the Fifth City payroll for awhile. Plus David and I had a wonderful time on the Fifth City to the World trip to the Bahamas so beautifully enabled and spiritized by Alice and Jim Baumbach. Remember Peggy who led the singing on our bus all the way there and back? I know the Fifth Citizens were not O:E but they were our colleagues and mentors. Ann Stewart Shafer
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Phylis Christmas
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Nancy Lanphear <nancy@songaia.com> wrote:
Dear Ones,
Our common memory is such a gift. Each of us can let go of some of our worry about loosing our own. Thanks for sharing your memories with me.
Love,
Nancy
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:48 AM, E B <marosel2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
Who can forget Dawn Lingo and Lynette Shanklin?
________________________________ From: Mary Laura Jones <mljones2022@gmail.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Friday, June 1, 2012 9:37 AM Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical
I learned so much from Lois Reeves and Emma Melton in the Cleveland Region. I am so grateful for their presence in our lives. Many things they said still make me smile. Their wisdom and leadership were very important in the ICA's work.
Mary Laura Jones
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:12 AM, McCabe, Diann A <dm14@txstate.edu>
wrote:
Sharon Turner stands out for me. Vincent Scott and Mary. And deep colleague in Mississippi, the late Ruth Wilson.
Diann McCabe
On 6/1/12 8:17 AM, "Nancy Lanphear" <nancy@songaia.com> wrote:
Dear Randy,
I, too would appreciate hearing some of the stories about what it was like to be black in the Order. I remember Phoebe Reynolds, Christine Harris, and some of the children .... Tad and Todd Mueller,
Eric
Shropshire, Adam and Kaira Lingo, Emanuel Ward, Kevin Woodward ... I am sorry , who are the others who have slipped through my memory ...? Thank you Joyce and Randy
Nancy
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:55 AM, R Williams <rcwmbw@yahoo.com> wrote:
Joyce,
Your brief comment, in remembering Robert Shropshire, about what it was like to be black and to have been in the O:E has me wanting to hear more about what that experience was like, and trying to recall our black Order colleagues prior to our being dispersed around the globe, embracing cultures of color everywhere.
In addition to you, Carlos and Shropshire, I remember Larry Ward, Nadine Ward, Harold Williams and Richard whose last name was, I think, Epson. Other faces are pictured in my mind's eye whose names I cannot recall. Who were they?
My interest is peaked by the fact that the white majority, in the U.S at least, is shrinking and will likely soon no longer exist, combined with the fact that there is a glimmer of indication that cultural diversity of all kinds is coming to be not only tolerated but embraced by more and more people.
On behalf of the future, with an eye toward how all people may live together in peace on this flat, increasingly diverse and crowded planet, I would love to hear more of your reflections, as well as those of others, on what it was like then to be black and in the O:E and what, with 50 years of experience behind us, we all have learned.
A conversation like this could be a fitting tribute to Robert, Nadine, Harold and others now departed who have impacted our community and consciousness over the years.
Randy
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Thanks for the report on Robert Shropshire's funeral. It is so sad to imagine that such bundled energy passes into the universe. Who knows what from there? As far as being black in the order, in a sense the whole experience of coming to Summer 67 and then living in Fifth City with EI was all about meeting black. Those black people in our order stood out. I remember Joe Matthews once saying "Imagine what I could do if I were black!" He meant that blacks had a special role to play at that time and a special power. But when I talk about meeting black, I mean so many things. I remember the Saturday night festivals at Summer '67. Black power, black history, the violence, the delightful bright colleagues in Fifth City, the Fifth City preschool and project, the Iron Man. They were all part of the order in those days. There was really no real line between order and community. Black transformed me. I will never be the same. Herman -----Original Message----- From: oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of John Cock Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2012 8:03 AM To: 'Order Ecumenical Community' Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical Helen Estridge was her name. -----Original Message----- From: oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Ann Shafer Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2012 8:32 PM To: 'Order Ecumenical Community' Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical Yes, we did, Jim, the Fifth City to the World trip where we took the bus from Chicago to Miami. We chartered a bus. The whole trip cost each person $200. We raffled off one trip. I organized the itinerary, then Alice and Jim Baumbach spiritized it. We had so much fun. When the ship arrived in Nassau, the Bahamian Minister of Tourism met the ship and said he was there to escort the Fifth Citizens. Then he took us on a private tour of Nassau and a village they were recreating to look like 100 years ago or so. So much fun. We ate at colleagues' homes and churches all the way down and back and slept on the bus - no stops for sleeping until we got on the ship. Each cabin was 4 beds, 2 above and 2 below, and was for either men or for women. And get this - the line was the Costa Line, the one that just had that awful accident in the Mediterranean. But we had no troubles at all, just a lot of fun. One lady from Fifth City whose name I don't remember had only one leg and got around on crutches. She did really well. Watching the Fifth City women flirt with the Italian waiters on the ship (and vice versa of course) was great. Pina coladas cost only 80 cents each on the ship. That I remember! The year was 1974. Ann -----Original Message----- From: oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of James Wiegel Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2012 12:03 PM To: Order Ecumenical Community Cc: Order Ecumenical Community Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical You sang on the bus all the way to the Bahamas ? Wow. Jim Wiegel Jfwiegel@yahoo.com I can't say as I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. Daniel Boone On Jun 1, 2012, at 18:25, "Ann Shafer" <asgoodasitgets@hughes.net> wrote:
And I so enjoyed working with everyone in Fifth City but most especially Velma Brocks who is my daughter, Catherine's, godmother. Velma could say so much without saying anything. She and I handled the Fifth City payroll for awhile. Plus David and I had a wonderful time on the Fifth City to the World trip to the Bahamas so beautifully enabled and spiritized by Alice and Jim Baumbach. Remember Peggy who led the singing on our bus all the way there and back? I know the Fifth Citizens were not O:E but they were our colleagues and mentors. Ann Stewart Shafer
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Phylis Christmas
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Nancy Lanphear <nancy@songaia.com> wrote:
Dear Ones,
Our common memory is such a gift. Each of us can let go of some of our worry about loosing our own. Thanks for sharing your memories with me.
Love,
Nancy
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:48 AM, E B <marosel2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
Who can forget Dawn Lingo and Lynette Shanklin?
________________________________ From: Mary Laura Jones <mljones2022@gmail.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Friday, June 1, 2012 9:37 AM Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical
I learned so much from Lois Reeves and Emma Melton in the Cleveland Region. I am so grateful for their presence in our lives. Many things they said still make me smile. Their wisdom and leadership were very important in the ICA's work.
Mary Laura Jones
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:12 AM, McCabe, Diann A <dm14@txstate.edu>
wrote:
Sharon Turner stands out for me. Vincent Scott and Mary. And deep colleague in Mississippi, the late Ruth Wilson.
Diann McCabe
On 6/1/12 8:17 AM, "Nancy Lanphear" <nancy@songaia.com> wrote:
Dear Randy,
I, too would appreciate hearing some of the stories about what it was like to be black in the Order. I remember Phoebe Reynolds, Christine Harris, and some of the children .... Tad and Todd Mueller,
Eric
Shropshire, Adam and Kaira Lingo, Emanuel Ward, Kevin Woodward ... I am sorry , who are the others who have slipped through my memory ...? Thank you Joyce and Randy
Nancy
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:55 AM, R Williams <rcwmbw@yahoo.com> wrote:
Joyce,
Your brief comment, in remembering Robert Shropshire, about what it was like to be black and to have been in the O:E has me wanting to hear more about what that experience was like, and trying to recall our black Order colleagues prior to our being dispersed around the globe, embracing cultures of color everywhere.
In addition to you, Carlos and Shropshire, I remember Larry Ward, Nadine Ward, Harold Williams and Richard whose last name was, I think, Epson. Other faces are pictured in my mind's eye whose names I cannot recall. Who were they?
My interest is peaked by the fact that the white majority, in the U.S at least, is shrinking and will likely soon no longer exist, combined with the fact that there is a glimmer of indication that cultural diversity of all kinds is coming to be not only tolerated but embraced by more and more people.
On behalf of the future, with an eye toward how all people may live together in peace on this flat, increasingly diverse and crowded planet, I would love to hear more of your reflections, as well as those of others, on what it was like then to be black and in the O:E and what, with 50 years of experience behind us, we all have learned.
A conversation like this could be a fitting tribute to Robert, Nadine, Harold and others now departed who have impacted our community and consciousness over the years.
Randy
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Maurice and Mary Boilin (spelling?) who were married with us 40 years ago on June 4, Richard Epson... So many part of the who wonderous mix. mary On Jun 1, 2012, at 9:48 AM, E B <marosel2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
Who can forget Dawn Lingo and Lynette Shanklin?
From: Mary Laura Jones <mljones2022@gmail.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Friday, June 1, 2012 9:37 AM Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical
I learned so much from Lois Reeves and Emma Melton in the Cleveland Region. I am so grateful for their presence in our lives. Many things they said still make me smile. Their wisdom and leadership were very important in the ICA's work.
Mary Laura Jones
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:12 AM, McCabe, Diann A <dm14@txstate.edu> wrote: Sharon Turner stands out for me. Vincent Scott and Mary. And deep colleague in Mississippi, the late Ruth Wilson.
Diann McCabe
On 6/1/12 8:17 AM, "Nancy Lanphear" <nancy@songaia.com> wrote:
Dear Randy,
I, too would appreciate hearing some of the stories about what it was like to be black in the Order. I remember Phoebe Reynolds, Christine Harris, and some of the children .... Tad and Todd Mueller, Eric Shropshire, Adam and Kaira Lingo, Emanuel Ward, Kevin Woodward ... I am sorry , who are the others who have slipped through my memory ...? Thank you Joyce and Randy
Nancy
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:55 AM, R Williams <rcwmbw@yahoo.com> wrote: Joyce,
Your brief comment, in remembering Robert Shropshire, about what it was like to be black and to have been in the O:E has me wanting to hear more about what that experience was like, and trying to recall our black Order colleagues prior to our being dispersed around the globe, embracing cultures of color everywhere.
In addition to you, Carlos and Shropshire, I remember Larry Ward, Nadine Ward, Harold Williams and Richard whose last name was, I think, Epson. Other faces are pictured in my mind's eye whose names I cannot recall. Who were they?
My interest is peaked by the fact that the white majority, in the U.S at least, is shrinking and will likely soon no longer exist, combined with the fact that there is a glimmer of indication that cultural diversity of all kinds is coming to be not only tolerated but embraced by more and more people.
On behalf of the future, with an eye toward how all people may live together in peace on this flat, increasingly diverse and crowded planet, I would love to hear more of your reflections, as well as those of others, on what it was like then to be black and in the O:E and what, with 50 years of experience behind us, we all have learned.
A conversation like this could be a fitting tribute to Robert, Nadine, Harold and others now departed who have impacted our community and consciousness over the years.
Randy
"Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires." -Martin Buber (adapted)
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