Campus Friends Meeting
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
CAMPUS FRIENDS MEETING
May 23, 2007
Monthly Meeting for Business
Ellis Room, Friendly Center
Unapproved Minutes
PRESENT: Patricia Thomas, Canby Jones, Lenna Mae Gara, Richard Coleman, Dale Hayes, Roger Schroeder, Ruth and Roy Joe Stuckey, Bob Powell
CALENDAR OF COMING EVENTS
Sunday, May 27
9:15 am Inner Search, Boyd Lobby
10:30 am Meeting for Worship,
Quaker Heritage Center Meetinghouse
Greeter/Breaker: Dale Hayes
Saturday, Jun 2
11:00 Serve lunch at Your Father’s Kitchen
Sunday, Jun 3
9:15 am Fellowship Breakfast, Kelly Center, Room 10
10:30 am Meeting for Worship,
Quaker Heritage Center Meetinghouse
Greeter/Breaker: Richard Coleman
Sunday, Jun 10
9:15 am Inner Search, Boyd Lobby
10:30 am Meeting for Worship,
Quaker Heritage Center Meetinghouse
Greeter/Breaker: Bob Powell
Sunday, Jun 17
9:15 am Inner Search, Boyd Lobby
10:30 am Meeting for Worship,
Quaker Heritage Center Meetinghouse
Greeter/Breaker: Canby Jones
Hymn singing at rise of meeting. Jim and Millie Ramsey will choose the hymns.
Tuesday, Jun 19
9:30 am Ministry and Counsel
Canby Jones, Apartment 417
Friendly Center
Wednesday, Jun 20
7:00 pm Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business
Ellis Room, Friendly Center
Sunday, Jun 24
9:15 am Inner Search, Boyd Lobby
10:30 am Meeting for Worship,
Quaker Heritage Center Meetinghouse
Greeter/Breaker: Patricia Thomas
Friends gathered with a time of centering and a query from WYM Queries.
Minutes of the April meeting
were approved with the correction of one minor typo.
Treasurer’s Report – Dale Hayes – attached to these minutes
The past month saw a good level of giving. We are only $68 behind our schedule for contributed meeting support, but it is not likely that we will be able to cover all of our end-of-year discretionary spending lines. Dale recommended that we continue to monitor the level of giving and make final decisions on discretionary spending at the July meeting for business.
The report was approved.
Ministry & Counsel – Roger Schroeder
The Retreat The first annual Campus Friends Retreat was judged a resounding success. Almost every resident member of the meeting was able to participate in some part of the retreat. There were 17 in meeting for worship on Sunday. At the close of the retreat, many members enthusiastically recommended a retreat in the fall. Ministry and Counsel agreed with this suggestion and took action to reserve Quaker Knoll for the weekend of October 26-28, pending approval by meeting for business,
Fifth Sunday The first of our Fifth Sunday programs took place on April 24. Richard Coleman and Bob Powell shared stories from their lives that they felt were important to them but not likely to be known to many of the members of the meeting. Those who were present found the presentations to be entertaining and inspiring. Ministry and Counsel judged the concept worthy of continuation. There are two fifth Sundays left in 2007: July 29 and September 29. The program will be announced later. In the meantime, volunteers are solicited to be speakers.
Distant Friends There have been no new responses to our outreach to distant friends. Ministry and Counsel will make one more attempt to reach those who have not responded. Action to drop non-responders is contemplated at the end of the fiscal year.
Faith and Practice Draft The review session at fellowship breakfast on May 7 was very useful. Consolidated concerns will be considered at the June fellowship breakfast. The meeting seems to be leaning toward approval with minor specific concerns.
Health of members was reviewed.
The report was approved.
Old Business
There was no old business
New Business
Fifth Sunday
The meeting approved continuing the fifth Sunday program. In the absence of volunteers, the meeting decided to ask Ron Rembert and Linda Sears to speak at the July fifth Sunday and Lenna Mae and Larry Gara to speak at the September meeting.
Fall Retreat
The meeting approved holding another retreat at Quaker Knoll Camp on the weekend of October 26-28. A committee will be formed in July to oversee preparations.
Your Father’s Kitchen
It is our turn again on June 2 to provide lunch at Your Father’s Kitchen. Linda Sears and her family will again take the lead for this ministry. They could use some help with cleanup. Friends willing to help should contact Linda.
Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting
The 187th annual session of OVYM will take place July 25-29 at Earlham College in Richmond, IN. Interested friends can find further information on the bulletin board or the OVYM web site.
Friends World Committee on Consultations
. . . wish to know if we want our meeting to be listed on their web site. The meeting approved. Dale Hayes will take the necessary action.
FUM presentation on Kenya Meeting
We have received a CD from Friends United Meeting containing a PowerPoint presentation on Kenya Yearly Meeting. Richard Coleman will evaluate its potential to serve as a program for a fellowship breakfast.
OVYM budgeting procedure
Even though it does not go into effect until next year, OVYM is conducting a practice drill of its new covenanting procedure for making up the budget. The sense of our meeting remains that this procedure, while fully in concert with Quaker values, is cumbersome and imposes unnecessary steps in the process. However, we have been asked for two inputs: our covenants with respect to the straw man budget for next year and our desires with respect to OVYM annual giving.
The meeting directed the treasurer to report to OVYM that it felt the new "covenanting process" for constructing the yearly meeting budget is too cumbersome for Campus Friends to give any meaningful input. Campus Friends appreciate being informed in advance of budget figures and significant changes, but trust the good efforts and wise counsel of those charged with coming up with a budget for the yearly meeting. The meeting does not think it proper or nor does it feel it has sufficient information, time, or inclination to micromanage the work of the YM Finance Committee. In order to provide OVYM with an appropriate figure as requested, the meeting directed the Treasurer to take the current assessment and increase it in proportion to the requested increase in the proposed yearly meeting budget. The meeting further directed the treasurer to take into account recent changes in the membership so as to include only those members who are active or have expressed a continued interest in maintaining their membership and spiritual ties with the Meeting.
With respect to the giving issues, the clear sense of the meeting is that the OVYM giving program should include a grant to the Earlham School of Religion. The meeting directed the treasurer to inform the OVYM Finance Committee of this desire and to suggest that committee eliminate the Larramore Home, Canada Friends Service Committee and Washington Work Camp lines and apply the resulting savings to a contribution to ESR.
The meeting noted that much of our own giving is duplicated by lines in the OVYM budget (and probably in the WYM budget, too). In view of our current fiscal difficulties, friends suggested that we might want to reconsider some of our discretionary giving to reduce redundancies and concentrate more on local activities, such as Quaker Knoll Camp and the Peace Resource Center.
Minute on Capital Punishment
In response to a previous request from meeting for business, Lenna Mae Gara brought forward a draft minute on capital punishment in support of a proposed moratorium on executions pending a thorough review of the fairness and efficacy of capital punishment. After a certain amount of wordsmithing, the minute was approved for transmission to Governor Strickland. The minute is attached,
The meeting concluded with a period of silent worship.
NEXT MEETING FOR BUSINESS –June 20-7:00PM - ELLIS ROOM
Patricia Thomas, Presiding Clerk
pcthomas42@earthlink.net
Bob Powell, Recording Clerk
rdp1710@gmail.com
Minute on Capital Punishment
Campus Monthly Meeting in Wilmington, Ohio, member of the Religious Society of Friends, reaffirms its opposition to capital punishment. We therefore call on Governor Ted Strickland and members of the Ohio Senate and Assembly to order an immediate moratorium on implementation of the death penalty in Ohio.
We base our opposition to capital punishment on the teachings of Jesus, on the testimonies for more than three hundred years of individual Friends and Friends organizations, and on our own evaluation of the way imposition of the death penalty has affected this country.
We believe that capital punishment is repugnant to our belief in the sacredness of life and God’s ability to overcome evil with good. Capital punishment promotes the myth of redemptive violence as a legitimate means for addressing human problems and fails to take into proper account the fallibility of humans and their institutions. Due process itself repeatedly has failed to correct errors in fact or judgment, police and prosecutorial misconduct, and disparities in race and class resulting in tragic misapplication of the death penalty. Available studies question the degree to which capital punishment has a deterrent effect. Moreover, the idea that family and friends of murder victims will find comfort and “closure” in the execution of a murderer is a cruel hoax. Society should acknowledge the suffering of survivors and help them heal, but we should not offer further violence as an answer to their pain.
While holding to our unswerving opposition to the death penalty, we support Ohioans to Stop Executions and similar organizations in other states and in Congress that are calling for a moratorium on the death penalty. Such a move would allow time for intensive study of the effectiveness and fairness of capital punishment as it is administered in the United States.
This minute was approved at a regular meeting for business on May 23, 2007. ¶ 8:09 AM 0 comments
May 23, 2007
Monthly Meeting for Business
Ellis Room, Friendly Center
Unapproved Minutes
PRESENT: Patricia Thomas, Canby Jones, Lenna Mae Gara, Richard Coleman, Dale Hayes, Roger Schroeder, Ruth and Roy Joe Stuckey, Bob Powell
CALENDAR OF COMING EVENTS
Sunday, May 27
9:15 am Inner Search, Boyd Lobby
10:30 am Meeting for Worship,
Quaker Heritage Center Meetinghouse
Greeter/Breaker: Dale Hayes
Saturday, Jun 2
11:00 Serve lunch at Your Father’s Kitchen
Sunday, Jun 3
9:15 am Fellowship Breakfast, Kelly Center, Room 10
10:30 am Meeting for Worship,
Quaker Heritage Center Meetinghouse
Greeter/Breaker: Richard Coleman
Sunday, Jun 10
9:15 am Inner Search, Boyd Lobby
10:30 am Meeting for Worship,
Quaker Heritage Center Meetinghouse
Greeter/Breaker: Bob Powell
Sunday, Jun 17
9:15 am Inner Search, Boyd Lobby
10:30 am Meeting for Worship,
Quaker Heritage Center Meetinghouse
Greeter/Breaker: Canby Jones
Hymn singing at rise of meeting. Jim and Millie Ramsey will choose the hymns.
Tuesday, Jun 19
9:30 am Ministry and Counsel
Canby Jones, Apartment 417
Friendly Center
Wednesday, Jun 20
7:00 pm Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business
Ellis Room, Friendly Center
Sunday, Jun 24
9:15 am Inner Search, Boyd Lobby
10:30 am Meeting for Worship,
Quaker Heritage Center Meetinghouse
Greeter/Breaker: Patricia Thomas
Friends gathered with a time of centering and a query from WYM Queries.
Minutes of the April meeting
were approved with the correction of one minor typo.
Treasurer’s Report – Dale Hayes – attached to these minutes
The past month saw a good level of giving. We are only $68 behind our schedule for contributed meeting support, but it is not likely that we will be able to cover all of our end-of-year discretionary spending lines. Dale recommended that we continue to monitor the level of giving and make final decisions on discretionary spending at the July meeting for business.
The report was approved.
Ministry & Counsel – Roger Schroeder
The Retreat The first annual Campus Friends Retreat was judged a resounding success. Almost every resident member of the meeting was able to participate in some part of the retreat. There were 17 in meeting for worship on Sunday. At the close of the retreat, many members enthusiastically recommended a retreat in the fall. Ministry and Counsel agreed with this suggestion and took action to reserve Quaker Knoll for the weekend of October 26-28, pending approval by meeting for business,
Fifth Sunday The first of our Fifth Sunday programs took place on April 24. Richard Coleman and Bob Powell shared stories from their lives that they felt were important to them but not likely to be known to many of the members of the meeting. Those who were present found the presentations to be entertaining and inspiring. Ministry and Counsel judged the concept worthy of continuation. There are two fifth Sundays left in 2007: July 29 and September 29. The program will be announced later. In the meantime, volunteers are solicited to be speakers.
Distant Friends There have been no new responses to our outreach to distant friends. Ministry and Counsel will make one more attempt to reach those who have not responded. Action to drop non-responders is contemplated at the end of the fiscal year.
Faith and Practice Draft The review session at fellowship breakfast on May 7 was very useful. Consolidated concerns will be considered at the June fellowship breakfast. The meeting seems to be leaning toward approval with minor specific concerns.
Health of members was reviewed.
The report was approved.
Old Business
There was no old business
New Business
Fifth Sunday
The meeting approved continuing the fifth Sunday program. In the absence of volunteers, the meeting decided to ask Ron Rembert and Linda Sears to speak at the July fifth Sunday and Lenna Mae and Larry Gara to speak at the September meeting.
Fall Retreat
The meeting approved holding another retreat at Quaker Knoll Camp on the weekend of October 26-28. A committee will be formed in July to oversee preparations.
Your Father’s Kitchen
It is our turn again on June 2 to provide lunch at Your Father’s Kitchen. Linda Sears and her family will again take the lead for this ministry. They could use some help with cleanup. Friends willing to help should contact Linda.
Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting
The 187th annual session of OVYM will take place July 25-29 at Earlham College in Richmond, IN. Interested friends can find further information on the bulletin board or the OVYM web site.
Friends World Committee on Consultations
. . . wish to know if we want our meeting to be listed on their web site. The meeting approved. Dale Hayes will take the necessary action.
FUM presentation on Kenya Meeting
We have received a CD from Friends United Meeting containing a PowerPoint presentation on Kenya Yearly Meeting. Richard Coleman will evaluate its potential to serve as a program for a fellowship breakfast.
OVYM budgeting procedure
Even though it does not go into effect until next year, OVYM is conducting a practice drill of its new covenanting procedure for making up the budget. The sense of our meeting remains that this procedure, while fully in concert with Quaker values, is cumbersome and imposes unnecessary steps in the process. However, we have been asked for two inputs: our covenants with respect to the straw man budget for next year and our desires with respect to OVYM annual giving.
The meeting directed the treasurer to report to OVYM that it felt the new "covenanting process" for constructing the yearly meeting budget is too cumbersome for Campus Friends to give any meaningful input. Campus Friends appreciate being informed in advance of budget figures and significant changes, but trust the good efforts and wise counsel of those charged with coming up with a budget for the yearly meeting. The meeting does not think it proper or nor does it feel it has sufficient information, time, or inclination to micromanage the work of the YM Finance Committee. In order to provide OVYM with an appropriate figure as requested, the meeting directed the Treasurer to take the current assessment and increase it in proportion to the requested increase in the proposed yearly meeting budget. The meeting further directed the treasurer to take into account recent changes in the membership so as to include only those members who are active or have expressed a continued interest in maintaining their membership and spiritual ties with the Meeting.
With respect to the giving issues, the clear sense of the meeting is that the OVYM giving program should include a grant to the Earlham School of Religion. The meeting directed the treasurer to inform the OVYM Finance Committee of this desire and to suggest that committee eliminate the Larramore Home, Canada Friends Service Committee and Washington Work Camp lines and apply the resulting savings to a contribution to ESR.
The meeting noted that much of our own giving is duplicated by lines in the OVYM budget (and probably in the WYM budget, too). In view of our current fiscal difficulties, friends suggested that we might want to reconsider some of our discretionary giving to reduce redundancies and concentrate more on local activities, such as Quaker Knoll Camp and the Peace Resource Center.
Minute on Capital Punishment
In response to a previous request from meeting for business, Lenna Mae Gara brought forward a draft minute on capital punishment in support of a proposed moratorium on executions pending a thorough review of the fairness and efficacy of capital punishment. After a certain amount of wordsmithing, the minute was approved for transmission to Governor Strickland. The minute is attached,
The meeting concluded with a period of silent worship.
NEXT MEETING FOR BUSINESS –June 20-7:00PM - ELLIS ROOM
Patricia Thomas, Presiding Clerk
pcthomas42@earthlink.net
Bob Powell, Recording Clerk
rdp1710@gmail.com
Minute on Capital Punishment
Campus Monthly Meeting in Wilmington, Ohio, member of the Religious Society of Friends, reaffirms its opposition to capital punishment. We therefore call on Governor Ted Strickland and members of the Ohio Senate and Assembly to order an immediate moratorium on implementation of the death penalty in Ohio.
We base our opposition to capital punishment on the teachings of Jesus, on the testimonies for more than three hundred years of individual Friends and Friends organizations, and on our own evaluation of the way imposition of the death penalty has affected this country.
“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you, Do not resist one who is evil. But if any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.” (Matthew 5: 38-39, Revised Standard Version)
“Our testimony against capital punishment is based on the belief that it is a violation of the sacredness of human life, that it disregards the fundamental capacity of all persons to respond to right influences, and that it gives no opportunity to reform the offender.” (Faith and Practice of Wilmington Yearly Meeting, 1977)
“Friends are opposed to capital punishment because it is contrary to the Divine law of love. The application of the death penalty is brutalizing and degrading to the public mind. It leaves no room for the reformation of character, nor for the revision of the sentence in the event of a miscarriage of justice.” (Book of Discipline of the Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting, 1978)
We believe that capital punishment is repugnant to our belief in the sacredness of life and God’s ability to overcome evil with good. Capital punishment promotes the myth of redemptive violence as a legitimate means for addressing human problems and fails to take into proper account the fallibility of humans and their institutions. Due process itself repeatedly has failed to correct errors in fact or judgment, police and prosecutorial misconduct, and disparities in race and class resulting in tragic misapplication of the death penalty. Available studies question the degree to which capital punishment has a deterrent effect. Moreover, the idea that family and friends of murder victims will find comfort and “closure” in the execution of a murderer is a cruel hoax. Society should acknowledge the suffering of survivors and help them heal, but we should not offer further violence as an answer to their pain.
While holding to our unswerving opposition to the death penalty, we support Ohioans to Stop Executions and similar organizations in other states and in Congress that are calling for a moratorium on the death penalty. Such a move would allow time for intensive study of the effectiveness and fairness of capital punishment as it is administered in the United States.
This minute was approved at a regular meeting for business on May 23, 2007. ¶ 8:09 AM 0 comments
