Quaker Schools - period ended 4.15.2006

Quaker Schools/Swarthmore/Transparency/Equality/Proceed with caution/Swarthmore College/Swarthmore/PA/USA/13-Apr-06//... We support this proposal because we see that student housing is one of the main arenas on campus in which students’ private identities and public lives collide, and that it has been one in which our Quaker values of open-mindedness, acceptance and egalitarianism have been neglected. ...

Quaker Schools/Ramallah Friends School//Christian Pilgrims Return to Holy Land in Droves/CNSNews.com/Alexandria/VA/USA/14-Apr-06//... I think it's an eye-opener," she said. Joshua Loiloande is a Quaker teacher from Kenya, who is working at a Christian school in the West Bank town of Ramallah. ...

Quaker Schools/Quaker History/Friends University/Old home town - 100 years ago today/Lawrence Journal World/Lawrence/KS/USA/15-Mar-06//... Andrew Carnegie has given $25,000 to Friends University of Wichita, which two Lawrence men were instrumental in founding. The Society of Friends founded the ...

Quaker Schools/Politics and Economics/Integrity/Wilmington College/10 Questions for Councilmember Kriss Worthington/Berkeley Daily Planet/Berkeley/CA/USA/11-Apr-06//... councilmember? KW: When I graduated from high school I took courses at Wilmington College, a Quaker school in Wilmington, Ohio. ...

Quaker Schools/Northern Virginia Friends School/Holliday, Marsha//Congratulations to.../TimesCommunity.com/Oakton/VA/USA/13-Apr-06//Northern Virginia Friends School, a Quaker elementary school in Oakton, has appointed Marsha Holliday as the new Head of School. ...

Quaker Schools/Harford Friends School/Saterlie, Mary Ellen/Its first year a success, Harford Friends School looks forward to .../Baltimore Sun/Baltimore/MD/USA/9-Apr-06//... of partnerships with local organizations and professionals who augmented a challenging curriculum that is accompanied by instruction in the Quaker philosophy. ...

Quaker Schools/Arts/Music//Who Knows Where the Time Goes/Nashville Scene/Nashville/TN/USA/13-Apr-06//... Because we, as listeners, live in a late era of pop culture, we can perceive a Wayfaring track like Shira Small’s 1974 “Eternal Life” in several ways. Recorded as part of a senior project for a Quaker boarding school, it’s goofy: her voice breaks, she insists on pronouncing “realization” as “re-al-i-zation,” and how silly are lines like, “Ruled by human logic / We sometimes confine ourselves / To one plane of the universe”? But “Eternal Life” is also prophetic, since the gospel-jazz piano and meandering rhythms certainly anticipate, say, the work of Antony & the Johnsons. And in the end, it’s profoundly moving, as only lost and ambiguous things can be....