Campus Friends Meeting
Monday, June 26, 2006
CAMPUS FRIENDS MEETING
June 19, 2006
Monthly Meeting for Business
Ellis Room, Friendly Center
Unapproved Minutes
PRESENT: Patricia Thomas, Richard Coleman, Lenna Mae Gara, Stephen Potthoff, Summer McBrayer, Dale Hayes, Roy Joe Stuckey, Bob Powell
CALENDAR OF COMING EVENTS
Sunday, Jun 25
10:30 am Meeting for Worship
Greeter/Breaker: Lenna Mae Gara
Saturday, Jul 1
11:00 Serve lunch at Your Father’s Kitchen
Sunday, Jul 2
9:15 am Fellowship Breakfast
10:30 am Meeting for Worship
Greeter/Breaker: Richard Coleman
Sunday, Jul 9
10:30 am Meeting for Worship
Greeter/Breaker: Bob Powell
Friday, Jul 14
10:00 am Ministry & Counsel in Canby’s apartment.
Wednesday, Jul 19
5:00 pm (tentative) Quaker Youth Pilgrimage picnic supper
Kelley Center
Note: No business meeting tonight
Sunday, Jul 16
10:30 Meeting for Worship
Greeter/Breaker: Dale Hayes.
Hymn sing: Dale chooses
Wednesday, Jul 26
7:30 pm Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business
Ellis Room, Quaker Apartments
Note change of date due to QYP supper
There will be no Spiritual Journeys gathering this month. Spiritual Journeys will resume in August
Friends gathered with a time of centering and a query from WYM Queries.
Minutes of the May meeting were approved.
Treasurer’s Report – Dale Hayes – attached to these minutes
It now appears that we probably will fall short of our budget by about $1,000. All our obligations and assessments have been paid, but most of our planned discretionary contributions have not. We have a fair amount of cash on hand and a CD is coming due, so we can make those contributions if we wish. However, we have a growing systemic problem in that about half of our contribution meeting support came from deceased or distant friends. We must soon concern ourselves with raising more money from the pool of local friends and attenders.
The matter of what to do about the budgeted discretionary contributions was discussed. Friends agreed that we do not want to reconsider the list of organizations to which we give nor the donation amounts in the budget.
In other matters, Dale reported that he is submitting our meeting location change to Friends Journal. The Quaker Life group subscription renewal time is upon us. Dale will make an announcement in Meeting for Worship. Friends desiring subscriptions to Quake Life should contact Dale.
The report was approved. The treasurer was instructed to disburse the discretionary contributions as planned. The budget committee will consider the matter of increasing local contributions when it meets this month to draw up the 2007 budget.
Ministry & Counsel – Roger Schroeder
The Spiritual Journeys series resumed with a session at Linda Sears’s home on June 13. There will be no Spiritual Journeys session in July owing to a conflict with the Quaker Youth Pilgrimage picnic we are hosting (q.v.).
Spiritual Journeys will resume on August 8 at the Thomas/Woodmansee home. The query will be “Do we live in awareness of what needs to be done? (Oh my God! I forgot!)”
The September session of Spiritual Journeys will take place on Sep 12, tentatively at Summer McBrayer’s home. Suggestions for the query are solicited from the meeting.
The Memorial Meeting for Marjorie Young went off as planned on June 17. It was well-attended with many warm memories shared.
The health of members was reviewed. The focus of our concern at present is Phil Holmes, whose condition remains grave.
Ministry and Counsel will meet again at 10:00 am in Canby Jones’ apartment on June 9
The report was approved.
Old Business
The Bulletin Board
The long-awaited bulletin board has arrived. Unfortunately, the space we had contemplated using is not structurally suitable. A new location is being scouted.
Appeal from Langley Hill Friends Meeting
Richard Coleman presented a draft letter to our congressional representative and our two senators. The draft is attached to these minutes. It strongly urges our lawmakers to see that all detainees being held by the United States be apprised of the reasons for their imprisonment and the nature of the charges against them. Friends enthusiastically endorsed the draft. A few typographical errors were corrected.
The meeting approved the letter. Richard will finalize it and send it out.
New Business
Quaker Genealogy and History Conference April 29 2007
Ruth Dobyns advised us of this event and asked if we feel disposed to invited the attendees to worship with us on that date. It is the sense of the meeting that we are happy to share our worship time with every one and are especially pleased to extend an invitation to this group.
The meeting approved inviting the attendees of the Quaker Genealogy and History Conference to worship with us.
Your Father’s Kitchen
It is once again our turn to provide lunch at Your Father’s Kitchen on Saturday, Jul 1. The following volunteered to provide indicated parts of the meal:
Owing to midsummer activities, many friends who usually help serve at this event are unable to participate. We need volunteers. If you would like to take part in this worthwhile ministry, call Patricia.
Quaker Youth Pilgrimage picnic July 19
In January, the meeting took on the responsibility for hosting the Quaker Youth Pilgrimage for a picnic supper on Wednesday, Jul 19. There will be 24 youth and 4 leaders, representing 7 countries. Host families and others will also attend. We will plan on feeding 60 people.
The meeting decided to hold a wienie roast at Kelley Center. The following friends volunteered to provide the indicated items
A time has not yet been set for this event. Friends should plan on gathering at about 5:30 pm.
Meetings for Business rescheduled
Because the Quaker Youth Pilgrimage picnic supper falls on our usual night for Meeting for Business, we moved it back one week to Jul 26. August has five Wednesdays, so it was suggested that we smooth out the schedule by moving the August meeting back one week also. The meeting approved. The Meeting for Business schedule is now Jul 26, Aug 23 and Sep 20.
Wilmington Yearly Meeting
Friends are reminded for planning purposes that Yearly Meeting will be held July 6-9 at Friendsville Friends Meetinghouse in Friendsville, Tennessee. The theme of the meeting is “Not conformed, but transformed” (Romans 12: 1-2).
Four issues were presented to the meeting for comment. These were
The meeting approved supporting all four of these measures.
Proposed amendments to the Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws of Wilmington College were discussed. Basically, the amendments add one seat to the Board of Directors and changes the terms to a maximum of three four-year terms vice two six-year terms. The meeting approved supporting the amendments.
Patricia presented the report of the WYM Nominating Committee for the WC board. The meeting approved the report.
Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting Budget and Finance Restructuring
OVYM is working its way through the new covenanting scheme that is being phased in this year. We are being asked for feedback on the budget requests from the various entities involved. Referred to the Budget and Finance Committee.
Inner Search
Inner Search is examining the writings of Meister Eckhardt. Participants expressed satisfaction with this topic and the book that is being used.
The meeting concluded with a period of silent worship.
NEXT MEETING FOR BUSINESS – Wednesday, Jul 26 -7:30PM - ELLIS ROOM
Patricia Thomas, Presiding Clerk
Bob Powell, Recording Clerk
mailto:bob.powell1@verizon.net
CAMPUS FRIENDS MEETING
AS APPROVED 6/21/06 AND MAILED TO
U. S. Representative Michael Turner
120 West Third Street, Dayton, Ohio 45402
U. S. Senator George V. Voinovich
37 West Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215
U. S. Senator Mike Dewine
100 West Main Street, Xenia, Ohio 45385
Dear Senator (Representative)
We strongly urge you to join with others in any and all efforts to get the current administration to give to each detainee held by our government a list of or statement of the charges for which they are being and have been imprisoned. This is a serious matter, to hold people against their will and not tell them or their governments or families WHY. The practice of our government in this matter is morally wrong and we will face the same kinds of detentions from others if it does not end.
We are a small Quaker group in Wilmington, Ohio making this request in memory of another Quaker, Tom Fox, who was kidnapped last November and murdered while working as a member of a Christian Peacemaker Team. Tom’s Quaker Meeting in McLean, Virginia has asked that we join them in this request.
Please let us know if there are others whom we can contact or other things that we can do to move this effort forward. Those in prison need to know why they are being held.
Very Sincerely,
Richard G. Coleman, Member
On Behalf of Campus Friends Meeting
P.O.Box 651 Wilmington, Ohio - 45177
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June 19, 2006
Monthly Meeting for Business
Ellis Room, Friendly Center
Unapproved Minutes
PRESENT: Patricia Thomas, Richard Coleman, Lenna Mae Gara, Stephen Potthoff, Summer McBrayer, Dale Hayes, Roy Joe Stuckey, Bob Powell
CALENDAR OF COMING EVENTS
Sunday, Jun 25
10:30 am Meeting for Worship
Greeter/Breaker: Lenna Mae Gara
Saturday, Jul 1
11:00 Serve lunch at Your Father’s Kitchen
Sunday, Jul 2
9:15 am Fellowship Breakfast
10:30 am Meeting for Worship
Greeter/Breaker: Richard Coleman
Sunday, Jul 9
10:30 am Meeting for Worship
Greeter/Breaker: Bob Powell
Friday, Jul 14
10:00 am Ministry & Counsel in Canby’s apartment.
Wednesday, Jul 19
5:00 pm (tentative) Quaker Youth Pilgrimage picnic supper
Kelley Center
Note: No business meeting tonight
Sunday, Jul 16
10:30 Meeting for Worship
Greeter/Breaker: Dale Hayes.
Hymn sing: Dale chooses
Wednesday, Jul 26
7:30 pm Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business
Ellis Room, Quaker Apartments
Note change of date due to QYP supper
There will be no Spiritual Journeys gathering this month. Spiritual Journeys will resume in August
Friends gathered with a time of centering and a query from WYM Queries.
Minutes of the May meeting were approved.
Treasurer’s Report – Dale Hayes – attached to these minutes
It now appears that we probably will fall short of our budget by about $1,000. All our obligations and assessments have been paid, but most of our planned discretionary contributions have not. We have a fair amount of cash on hand and a CD is coming due, so we can make those contributions if we wish. However, we have a growing systemic problem in that about half of our contribution meeting support came from deceased or distant friends. We must soon concern ourselves with raising more money from the pool of local friends and attenders.
The matter of what to do about the budgeted discretionary contributions was discussed. Friends agreed that we do not want to reconsider the list of organizations to which we give nor the donation amounts in the budget.
In other matters, Dale reported that he is submitting our meeting location change to Friends Journal. The Quaker Life group subscription renewal time is upon us. Dale will make an announcement in Meeting for Worship. Friends desiring subscriptions to Quake Life should contact Dale.
The report was approved. The treasurer was instructed to disburse the discretionary contributions as planned. The budget committee will consider the matter of increasing local contributions when it meets this month to draw up the 2007 budget.
Ministry & Counsel – Roger Schroeder
The Spiritual Journeys series resumed with a session at Linda Sears’s home on June 13. There will be no Spiritual Journeys session in July owing to a conflict with the Quaker Youth Pilgrimage picnic we are hosting (q.v.).
Spiritual Journeys will resume on August 8 at the Thomas/Woodmansee home. The query will be “Do we live in awareness of what needs to be done? (Oh my God! I forgot!)”
The September session of Spiritual Journeys will take place on Sep 12, tentatively at Summer McBrayer’s home. Suggestions for the query are solicited from the meeting.
The Memorial Meeting for Marjorie Young went off as planned on June 17. It was well-attended with many warm memories shared.
The health of members was reviewed. The focus of our concern at present is Phil Holmes, whose condition remains grave.
Ministry and Counsel will meet again at 10:00 am in Canby Jones’ apartment on June 9
The report was approved.
Old Business
The Bulletin Board
The long-awaited bulletin board has arrived. Unfortunately, the space we had contemplated using is not structurally suitable. A new location is being scouted.
Appeal from Langley Hill Friends Meeting
Richard Coleman presented a draft letter to our congressional representative and our two senators. The draft is attached to these minutes. It strongly urges our lawmakers to see that all detainees being held by the United States be apprised of the reasons for their imprisonment and the nature of the charges against them. Friends enthusiastically endorsed the draft. A few typographical errors were corrected.
The meeting approved the letter. Richard will finalize it and send it out.
New Business
Quaker Genealogy and History Conference April 29 2007
Ruth Dobyns advised us of this event and asked if we feel disposed to invited the attendees to worship with us on that date. It is the sense of the meeting that we are happy to share our worship time with every one and are especially pleased to extend an invitation to this group.
The meeting approved inviting the attendees of the Quaker Genealogy and History Conference to worship with us.
Your Father’s Kitchen
It is once again our turn to provide lunch at Your Father’s Kitchen on Saturday, Jul 1. The following volunteered to provide indicated parts of the meal:
- Patricia will provide sloppy Joes
- Lenna Mae will bring milk
- Bob Powell will provide a vegetable
- Stephen and Summer will bring peanut butter and jelly
Owing to midsummer activities, many friends who usually help serve at this event are unable to participate. We need volunteers. If you would like to take part in this worthwhile ministry, call Patricia.
Quaker Youth Pilgrimage picnic July 19
In January, the meeting took on the responsibility for hosting the Quaker Youth Pilgrimage for a picnic supper on Wednesday, Jul 19. There will be 24 youth and 4 leaders, representing 7 countries. Host families and others will also attend. We will plan on feeding 60 people.
The meeting decided to hold a wienie roast at Kelley Center. The following friends volunteered to provide the indicated items
- Richard Coleman will arrange for grills. He will also bring hot dogs and watermelon
- Patricia will donate hamburgers
- Summer will acquire buns
- Bob will bring mustard, mayonnaise, relish and chili
- Roger will provide paper cups and plates and plastic cutlery
- Patricia will ask a sister meeting to provide drinks
A time has not yet been set for this event. Friends should plan on gathering at about 5:30 pm.
Meetings for Business rescheduled
Because the Quaker Youth Pilgrimage picnic supper falls on our usual night for Meeting for Business, we moved it back one week to Jul 26. August has five Wednesdays, so it was suggested that we smooth out the schedule by moving the August meeting back one week also. The meeting approved. The Meeting for Business schedule is now Jul 26, Aug 23 and Sep 20.
Wilmington Yearly Meeting
Friends are reminded for planning purposes that Yearly Meeting will be held July 6-9 at Friendsville Friends Meetinghouse in Friendsville, Tennessee. The theme of the meeting is “Not conformed, but transformed” (Romans 12: 1-2).
Four issues were presented to the meeting for comment. These were
- A draft policy on sexual harassment
- A draft minute on corporal punishment in schools. The minute calls for its abolition as cruel and ineffective
- An FCNL statement on conscientious objectors. (Still being drafted.)
- A statement on calling for abolition of nuclear weapons
The meeting approved supporting all four of these measures.
Proposed amendments to the Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws of Wilmington College were discussed. Basically, the amendments add one seat to the Board of Directors and changes the terms to a maximum of three four-year terms vice two six-year terms. The meeting approved supporting the amendments.
Patricia presented the report of the WYM Nominating Committee for the WC board. The meeting approved the report.
Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting Budget and Finance Restructuring
OVYM is working its way through the new covenanting scheme that is being phased in this year. We are being asked for feedback on the budget requests from the various entities involved. Referred to the Budget and Finance Committee.
Inner Search
Inner Search is examining the writings of Meister Eckhardt. Participants expressed satisfaction with this topic and the book that is being used.
The meeting concluded with a period of silent worship.
NEXT MEETING FOR BUSINESS – Wednesday, Jul 26 -7:30PM - ELLIS ROOM
Patricia Thomas, Presiding Clerk
Bob Powell, Recording Clerk
mailto:bob.powell1@verizon.net
CAMPUS FRIENDS MEETING
AS APPROVED 6/21/06 AND MAILED TO
U. S. Representative Michael Turner
120 West Third Street, Dayton, Ohio 45402
U. S. Senator George V. Voinovich
37 West Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215
U. S. Senator Mike Dewine
100 West Main Street, Xenia, Ohio 45385
Dear Senator (Representative)
We strongly urge you to join with others in any and all efforts to get the current administration to give to each detainee held by our government a list of or statement of the charges for which they are being and have been imprisoned. This is a serious matter, to hold people against their will and not tell them or their governments or families WHY. The practice of our government in this matter is morally wrong and we will face the same kinds of detentions from others if it does not end.
We are a small Quaker group in Wilmington, Ohio making this request in memory of another Quaker, Tom Fox, who was kidnapped last November and murdered while working as a member of a Christian Peacemaker Team. Tom’s Quaker Meeting in McLean, Virginia has asked that we join them in this request.
Please let us know if there are others whom we can contact or other things that we can do to move this effort forward. Those in prison need to know why they are being held.
Very Sincerely,
Richard G. Coleman, Member
On Behalf of Campus Friends Meeting
P.O.Box 651 Wilmington, Ohio - 45177
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