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:

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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

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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

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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

A great privilege I remember was being in 5th City for Thanksgiving, 1975, when neighborhood colleagues came to help prepare the feast. I learned how to make genuine candied sweet potatoes. We had so much fun, cooking and laughing. A teenager heated her metal comb on a burner. The smell of singed hair as she used it is still vivid. Caught a glimpse of Ruth Carter in the 50/50 ICA video we saw at the Hamiltons. What a marvelous model of womanhood. Is anyone in touch with her? My condolences to Robert Schropshire's family. Seems like it was his Ur lecture that so addressed my life when I was on the Academy staff, spring '74. He certainly didn't fit into any stereotype. Blessings on this community as we "gather at the river." Jann McGuire In a message dated 6/1/2012 8:22:53 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, mardavscott@gmail.com writes: Phylis Christmas On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Nancy Lanphear <nancy@songaia.com> wrote: they like the

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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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