Quakerphernalia

The Newsletter of Bucks Quarterly Meeting of Friends
June 1997

Contacting the Coordinator

Events This Month plus Last-minute updates

Looking Ahead

Chandler Hall Worship Services

Details about Past and Coming Events

Snippets of News from the Quarter and Other Places

Quakerphrenalia Archives

Just in case you forgot to write down a phone number, etc.

Chandler Hall Worship Services will be organized by:

• June - Buckingham
• July - Makefield
• August - Middletown

• Friends General Conference
• Chandler Hall Auxiliary Meeting
• Chandler Hall’s Home Health Care
• Celebration at Falls Meeting
• Strategies for Resolving Conflict
• Friends World Committee Meeting
• Family Baseball Outing - Trenton Thunder
• One-Day Family Weekend Camp
• Celebration at Lehigh Valley
• Yearly Meeting at Allentown
• Strategies for Resolving Conflict
• Serenity Visits Bucks Quarter
• Coffee House at Falls Meeting

If you plan to go to Harrisonburg, Virginia, for this year’s Friends General Conference, there is not much time left in which to sign up. Check for an extra program in your meetinghouse or call the coordinator (860-9747).

Friends should also be aware that FGC has a First Time Attenders scholarship fund. The maximum scholarship amount is $300 per individual or $500 per family. Call FGC at 561-1700 for information.

The Chandler Hall Auxiliary will meet at Falls Meeting on Monday, June 2nd, at 12 noon. The meeting will begin with a covered-dish luncheon. A short business meeting will precede the program. The guest speaker, Nancy Hartman, is Director of Hospice at Chandler Hall. Nancy will speak on "Hospice vs. Physician-Assisted Suicide."

Friends from throughout the Quarter are invited to Falls Meeting on Sunday, June 8th, for a celebration of the new addition to Falls meetinghouse. The schedule is as follows:

If you haven’t yet visited Falls and seen the new addition, you will want to come to this celebration. Fallsington is unique in having 3 meetinghouses right on Fallsington Square.

The Bucks County Peace Centers in Langhorne are offering an advanced level workshop on "Strategies for Resolving Conflict" on Saturday, June 14th, from 9 AM - 3 PM. The cost is $30. Call 750-7220 to register.

Friends World Committee will meet May 30th-June 1st in Browns Mills, NJ. The theme for the weekend meeting is "Peaceable Crucible - Quaker Revival in a Time of Turmoil." Among the panelists are Vanessa Julye on "Friends of Color," Jorge Arauz on "Poverty & Simplicity," Jean Zaru, from Ramallah Friends School, on "Conflicts and Struggles in Israel," and others. The cost for the weekend is $35 for adults, $50 for cabins and meals. For more information and registration call 609-235-4507.

Sunday, July 22nd, is the date for the Family Baseball Outing in Trenton to watch the Trenton Thunder play New Britain (Twins). The game starts at 1:05 PM. Tickets are $7.75 for adults and children. If you’ve been to Trenton Thunder games you know how great they are. If you haven’t been yet, it’s time to sample a good time at a small field where you can see the players without binoculars! Registration forms are in the meetinghouses. If you have questions or need a form, call the Coordinator at 860-9747. Tickets will be given out at the entrance before the game.

This year’s One-Day Family Weekend Camp will be held at Falls Meeting on Sunday, August 17th. The schedule is still being worked on by the committee, but Friends will want to know that it may be as follows:

Lehigh Valley Meeting celebrated the opening of their new addition on Sunday, April 27th. Friends and friends of the Meeting from near and far gathered for worship, which was followed by a program in the new space. After lunch Friends joined hands and, led by the oldest member of the meeting and the youngest member who could walk, went outside and encircled the meetinghouse with a chain made up of Friends and visitors, some one hundred in all! Celebration concluded with Meeting for Worship.

As Friends probably know, Chandler Hall has several corporations under its umbrella. One of those is the Chandler Hall Hospice/Home Health Agency. The Home Health Agency serves the wider community. It includes in-home hospice patients, in-home rehab patients, health care at home, and persons interested in the Wellness model of Home Health Care. One community which the Wellness Program serves is a group of older Quakers and non-Quakers living at Westwyk, an intergenerational condominium community in Doylestown. Chandler Hall provides an exercise program 3 days a week at Westwyk. A nurse practitioner is available for weekly health screenings and to facilitate a discussion group on topics of nutrition, spirituality, creativity and life goals for the future.

Anne Feaster, Director of Home Health Care at Chandler Hall, says that the program is flexible and can be designed to provide services for health/wellness, community, or home focus. Anne is willing to visit monthly meetings and discuss the programs and answer questions. For information on all aspects of the Home Health Agency, call Anne at 860-4000, ext. 9237.

The agenda and registration materials for Philadelphia Yearly Meeting at Allentown College have been mailed to all Friends in PYM. The dates are July 15th-20th. The brochure covers all details of the programs and workshops, sleeping arrangements and meals, children and Young Friends’ activities. The cost for the event is based on number of meals eaten plus overnights. Friends may also commute, camp out, or stay in local motels. Financial assistance for travel and/or staying at residential Yearly Meeting is available. If you did not get an agenda and registration form, call the Coordinator at 860-9747 or PYM at 1-800-220-0796, ext. 7201. If you have questions about PYM at Allentown, get in touch with someone who went in 1995. We all had a splendid time!

The Bucks County Peace Centers in Langhorne are offering an advanced level workshop on "Strategies for Resolving Conflict" on Saturday, June 14th, from 9 AM - 3 PM. The cost is $30. Call 750-7220 to register.

Serenity is a choir from North Carolina Yearly Meeting made up of Young Friends from 7th grade through college. The choir will be visiting the Bucks Quarter area and staying at Falls Meeting from June 22-24. Serenity performs a mix of traditional hymns, a cappella pieces, and contemporary Christian music. This group comes together with a desire to share in ministry through singing and to grow in the Spirit Join Friends in the Quarter at Falls Meeting on Sunday, June 22nd to hear this group. The fun begins at 5 PM with carriage rides and games, potluck supper at 6 PM, and the concert at 7 PM.

There will be a Coffee House at Falls Meeting on Friday, June 13th, at 7:30 PM. Friends of all ages are invited for coffee, snacks, live music, poetry readings, and dancing. The cost is $4.00 in advance or $5 at the door. Both options include 2 tokens for food and drink. For more information call Jody Guokas at 968-3775.

Sid Cadwallader of Yardley Meeting was honored at this year’s Alumni Weekend at George School. Among his many contributions are his 15 years of service as the attorney for the George School Committee, co-chair of the Annual Fund, and his work guiding George School and the Pennswood board through the processes of land sale, planning and construction leading to the opening of Pennswood in 1980.

Schuylkill Meeting has joined in a concern first felt by children & teachers of the their First Day School to promote world peace by calling for a world-wide armistice to take place during the Olympic Games, beginning in the year 2000. This would restore an ancient Greek tradition in which war ceased during the athletes’ travel times and the games.

Doylestown Meeting’s First Day School enjoys a monthly get-together of parents and children at someone’s house at the rise of meeting. They gather for lunch and an activity for children afterwards. It helps parents and kids get to know one another better while having a good time.

Newtown Friends School has its new Pre-Kindergarten class up and running happily. Pre-K students enjoy trips such as a visit to Styer’s Orchard, Friday morning sing-outs and special assemblies with Newtown Friends School students, and working with 4th-grade "pals."

Quakertown Meeting’s Spring Festival will be on Saturday, June 28th, including games, outreach information, food, historical presentations, and other activities. Also, Quakertown’s new book group got started in April and meets monthly!

Pendle Hill is offering Inquirers’ Weekend on July 11-13. Mickey Edgerton and Jonathan Vogel-Borne will lead the workshop. The cost is $150 for a double room and $175 for a single. Call Shirley Dodson at 1-800-220-0796, ext. 7182.

Summer Midweek Meetings for Worship will be held at Middletown Meeting on Wednesdays at 7:30 PM. Makefield also holds a midweek Meeting for Worship on Thursdays at 7:00 PM year-round. Friends in the Quarter are invited.

Quakerphrenalia is not published in July. To have your events listed in the August issue, please notify the coordinator by July 10, 1997: