Snippets of News from the Quarter and Other Places Do you have an item for the up-coming Quarterly Meeting at Middletown?  Call Howard Cell, clerk, to have your suggestion put on the agenda.  Howard’s phone number is 215-736-2444.

The Yearly Meeting Fund for Alcohol and Drug Education has an accumulation of $40,000.  Monthly and Quarterly Meetings, Friends Schools, and Friends involved with public education are encouraged to apply by the January 2000 deadline.  The fund exists to aid Friends in setting up programs in meetings or Friends schools, among other things.  Call Tom Hoopes at 1-800-220-0796, ext. 7224, for more information.

PYM seeks a coordinator for the workcamp program in West Philadelphia.  The position involves working with high school and older workcamp participants, and, working with the African American community in which the program is based.  Call 1-800-220-0796, ext. 7230.  Applications due by October 15th.

The 23rd Annual Quaker Lesbian Conference will be held on Labor Day Weekend, September 2-5, at the Dominican Retreat House in Elkins Park, PA.  Registration due on August 1st.  Call registrar at 610-734-0415 for registration packet.

If you are interested in being a Hospice volunteer at Chandler Hall you will want to attend the Hospice Volunteer Open House on Wednesday, September 9th, from 6:30 - 8:00 PM.  Call Charlotte Medl at 860-4000, est. 371 for information.

Did you notice on the masthead of Quakerphernalia that our new email address is “coordinator@quakersbucks.org?”  Feel free to send information for the newsletter by email!

Dan Seeger, director of Pendle Hill, will retire in September 2000.  For application procedure or to suggest names of people who might flourish as director, contact Pendle Hill, Box SC-Z, 338 Plush Mill Rd., Wallingford, PA  19086.

JoAnn & Lew Woodman have recently learned that the copies of the wedding certificate which are needed for Meeting Recorder records may be easily made by Reprographic Specialists in Newtown for $10.00.  Call 860-5500 for information.