Quaker History - period ended 6.15.2006

Quaker History/Hoover, Herbert//On the presidents' museum trails/Chicago Tribune/Chicago/IL/USA/11-Jun-06//... Curator Timothy Walch says some Iowans to this day are so bitter about their native son's role in the Depression that they refuse to see his museum. Regardless of what anyone thinks of Herbert Hoover's presidency--and visitors can register their own thoughts, then hear what historians say--few who have held that office can match his accomplishments outside of it. During and shortly after World War I, Hoover led private relief efforts that fed a billion people in 57 countries. Thank-you pictures colored by some of the children who owed their lives to his management skills and compassion are on display, as are empty flour sacks embroidered by Belgian women in appreciation for the full ones that fed their families.

The museum also devotes an instructive section to Hoover's underappreciated service as commerce secretary. Today we take for granted that milk bottles and tires come in standard sizes, that stoplights will tell us when it's safe to go, that building codes will protect homes and neighborhoods. Hoover was the genius behind all of them.

The poignant section that focuses on the Great Depression is titled "From Hero to Scapegoat" and gets that right. The museum presents some evidence that Hoover's responses after the stock market crash weren't all bad--he spent more money on public works in four years than his predecessors had in 30, and the Democratic Congress refused to pass his remedial legislation. But it also makes the point that this was a man who believed in the power of right-acting people to get the country going again. Padlocked bank doors from 1933 are a reminder of that theory's limits.

Also on the site are the two-room cottage in which Hoover was born, the Quaker Meeting House his family attended, a replica of his father's blacksmith shop, several homes from the period, and the presidential library and gravesite. ...

Quaker History/Business/Environment/How woods became 'The people's Park'/expressandstar.com/Midlands/England/UK/9-Jun-06//... family. Contrary to the pacifist beliefs of the Society of Friends, the Galtons made its money from gunmaking. And money they made. ...

Quaker History/Business/Morris, Samuel/Best Find: Hope Lodge and Mather Mill/Philadelphia Inquirer/Philadelphia/PA/USA/5-Jun-06//... back walkway. History of Hope Lodge: Quaker miller and ironmaster Samuel Morris built the house between 1743 and 1748. Researchers ...

Quaker History/Civil Rights/Penn, William/Jury duty should involve more than using the facts to decide a .../New Brunswick Home News Tribune/New Brunswick/NJ/USA/5-Jun-06//... chaos" in the minds of ruling officials when, in the late 1600s, a brave London jury refused to convict William Penn for preaching Quaker doctrine — which at ...

Quaker History/Free Quakers/Greene, Nathanael/Gala puts spotlight on Greene papers/Providence Journal/Providence/RI/USA/3-Jun-06//... "Here was this 33-year-old Quaker who knew nothing about the military except what he read in books, and he proved to be the best general [George] Washington had ...

Quaker History/Hoover, Herbert//Herbert Hoover cottage to close for repainting/DesMoinesRegister.com/Des Moines/IA/USA/12-Jun-06//... The project, which was to begin today, could take up to four months. Hoover, the son of a Quaker blacksmith, was born in West Branch 1874. ...

Quaker History/Humanitarian Assistance/Foster, William E./End of era approaching/Mayo News/Mayo/Ireland/E.U./11-Jun-06//... It was so very different when the Sisters of Mercy arrived in Westport for the first time way back in 1842. An extract from the address given by Fr Anthony King backing 1992 when the community celebrated the 150th anniversary of the SOM arrival in Westport makes interesting reading : “recently, I read a letter written by a Quaker, William Edward Foster on January 18, 1847. An extract from the letter describes Westport at the time . . . .‘the town of Westport was in itself a strange and fearful sight. Like what we read of in beleaguered cities, its streets crowded with gaunt wanderers, sauntering to and fro with hopeless air and hunger struck look; a mob of starved, almost naked women around the poor house, clambering for soup-tickets; our Inn, the headquarters of the road engineer and pay clerks, beset by a crowd of beggars for work . . .’. This was the Westport that the Sisters came to and began their work in, and their annals describe the poverty and misery they met as they visited the people.” ...

Quaker History/Levens, John//Gun salute marks plaque ceremony/Yorkshire Post Today/York/England/UK/6-Jun-06//... John Levens became a prominent Nidderdale leader in the Society of Friends and, like many local Quakers, was imprisoned in York Castle on at least two ...

Quaker History/Native Americans//In for a penny, in for a pound/Craig Daily Press/Craig/CO/USA/12-Jun-06//... His collection now boasts between 50,000 to 70,000 coins and a host of other rare currency. The jewel of the collection, or at least one of them, is a Quaker Indian Peace Medal, a coin that was once in the pocket of Ulysses S. Grant, the country's 18th president and a Union general in the Civil War. ...

Quaker History/Natural Science/Horticulture/Moving the exotic east/Philadelphia Inquirer/Philadelphia/PA/USA/12-Jun-06//... Even so, several horticulture experts said the Philadelphia region - a gardening hotbed because of its climate and Quaker roots - had been a good market for ...

Quaker History/Outreach///History project moving along/Jamestown News/Jamestown/NC/USA/14-Jun-06//... The fair provides opportunities for visitors to participate in activities that were common to early Quaker settlers in the area. ...

Quaker History/Plain Language//Language: The ropes on aviation tropes/International Herald Tribune/Paris/France/E.U./5-Jun-06/NYTimes/... Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland demanded to know if the nominee would succumb to "the gaga factor" when standing next to the president, or if he would exert his independence by "speaking truth to power." The earliest use I can find of that challenge to authority was in a letter, probably written in the 1820s, from the British painter B.R. Haydon (no kin to General Hayden) to the editor of The Edinburgh Review. The artist told the editor, "My life has been a whirlwind of brilliant victory and bitter defeat ... because in my early and ardent aspirations after excellence I told truth to power!"

The phrase became a favorite of the Quakers in the 20th century, first reported in a letter by Bayard Rustin, a civil rights advocate and Quaker, in 1942. Anita Hill, who became known for her Senate testimony about Clarence Thomas, titled her 1997 memoir "Speaking Truth to Power.". ...

Quaker History/Plain Language//ON LANGUAGE In the end, new CIA director is gaga for granularity/Houston Chronicle/Houston/TX/USA/5-Jun-06/NYTimes/... Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland demanded to know if the nominee would succumb to "the gaga factor" when standing next to the president, or if he would exert his independence by "speaking truth to power." The earliest use I can find of that challenge to authority was in a letter, probably written in the 1820s, from the British painter B.R. Haydon (no kin to General Hayden) to the editor of The Edinburgh Review. The artist told the editor, "My life has been a whirlwind of brilliant victory and bitter defeat ... because in my early and ardent aspirations after excellence I told truth to power!"

The phrase became a favorite of the Quakers in the 20th century, first reported in a letter by Bayard Rustin, a civil rights advocate and Quaker, in 1942. Anita Hill, who became known for her Senate testimony about Clarence Thomas, titled her 1997 memoir "Speaking Truth to Power.". ...

Quaker History/Plain Language//ON LANGUAGE In the end, new CIA director is gaga for granularity/New York Times/New York/NY/USA/3-Jun-06/NYTimes/... Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland demanded to know if the nominee would succumb to "the gaga factor" when standing next to the president, or if he would exert his independence by "speaking truth to power." The earliest use I can find of that challenge to authority was in a letter, probably written in the 1820s, from the British painter B.R. Haydon (no kin to General Hayden) to the editor of The Edinburgh Review. The artist told the editor, "My life has been a whirlwind of brilliant victory and bitter defeat ... because in my early and ardent aspirations after excellence I told truth to power!"

The phrase became a favorite of the Quakers in the 20th century, first reported in a letter by Bayard Rustin, a civil rights advocate and Quaker, in 1942. Anita Hill, who became known for her Senate testimony about Clarence Thomas, titled her 1997 memoir "Speaking Truth to Power.". ...

Quaker History/War/Conscientious Objection/Starvation/Conscientious objectors called to serve/Cleveland Plain Dealer/Cleveland/OH/USA/5-Jun-06//... Most had resisted military service as the sons of historic peace churches - Mennonite, Quaker and Brethren - as well as Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist and ...

Quaker History/Westerly Monthly Meeting/A HISTORY OF TOLERANCE/Westerly Sun/Westerly/RI/USA/15-Jun-06//... In Colonial times, Quakers - known as the Religious Society of Friends - comprised the largest religious group in Rhode Island and the third largest in the ...

Quaker History/WWII/Conscientious Objection/Ambulance Corps/Courant spotted Eliza’s talent 30 years ago/Hexham Courant/Hexham/England/UK/9-Jun-06//... The book tells the story of Clem, a man struggling to re-establish his identity after serving in the Ambulance Corps as a conscientious objector during the Second World War.

Meanwhile he is holding down a job as a teacher and starting a new relationship with Lou.

Giving Up Architecture explores universal themes by looking how two ordinary lives can be torn apart by war.

It asks the question: What happens to ordinary lives when international concerns intrude and explores what it means to belong to a particular group, be it Jewish, Quaker or German.. ...

Quaker History///TRUST TO RE-OPEN QUAKER GRAVEYARD/Westerly Sun/Westerly/RI/USA/5-Jun-06//WESTERLY - A Quaker burial ground located on the grounds of the town's first meeting house is expected later this month to be officially designated as an educational and historic site by local land trust officials.

Westerly Land Trust officials announced this week they have scheduled a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 9 a.m. on June 12 at the Religious Society of Friends, or Quaker, burial ground. ...

Quaker History///Nixon's childhood church marks century of services/Whittier Daily News/Whittier/CA/USA/5-Jun-06//... Cosand said. East Whittier Friends Church, which officially marks its centennial Tuesday, was founded in the Quaker tradition. But ...

Quaker History///Unexpected fruit of the family tree/Financial Times/London/England/UK/2-Jun-06//... degree in law. The following year he married Hannah Gurney of Earlham near Norwich, a member of the Quaker Gurney family. She was ...