\ New Mexico Ninth Annual Inter—Mountain Yearly Meeting

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Ninth Annual
Inter—Mountain Yearly Meeting
Of the Religious society of Friends
June 9—12, 1983
Ghost Ranch, New Mexico
Session I
The ninth annual gathering of the Inter-Mountain
Yearly Meeting (IMYM) convened at Ghost Ranch on Friday,
June 10, 1983.
The first plenary session was opened by ccclerks Jack and Ethel Hailer at 10:30 a.rn.
“How do we express our joy?” during meeting,
Some Friends are not comfortable with
Ethel Hailer asked.
applause, she said, and last year’s evaluation sheets indicated
that. hand-waving was also disquieting.
She suggested that
smiles and clasped hands might prOvide a happy medium
for approval.
Arizona HalfJack Hailer called the roll.
Yearly Meeting was represented by Friends from Cochise,
Flagstaff, Phoenix, Pima and Tempe; Colorado General Meeting
was represented by Boulder, Fort Collins, Mountain View
and Western Slope; New Mexico Quarterly Meebing by Albuquer
que, Durango, Far:tiington, Gallup, Gila, Las Cruces, Los
Alamos, Santa Fe, Socorro, Taos, Clear Light and El, Paso;
and the Meetings in Utah by Salt Lake City and Moab.
Midland Monthly Meeting was also representeth
The clerks read traveling minutes introducing
Claire Galbraith of Dallas nth1y Meeting and Alice
Deutsch of Iowa Yearly Meeting (conservative)
The clerks
also welcomed Robert Vogel c1rk of Pacific Yearly Meeting;
Juan and Dorothy Pasco of Mexico City Monthly Meeting
an associate member of IMYM: Shirley Ruth, editor of Friends
Bulletin; Kitty Barragato, a representative of the American
Friends Service ornmittee from Pasadena; Bob and Catherine
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Wahrinund of Texas, representing the Friends Committee on
National Legislation; and visitors from California, Wyothing,
Mexico, Hawaii and Massachusetts.
Larry Scott of McNeal, Arizona, then introduced
our resource speaker,.. Lawrence Apsey of New York Yearly
Meeting.
The author of a booklet entitled Transforming
Power for Peace, Lawrence Apsey has been working for 21
years to spread the principles of Gandhian non-violence
as a means of implementing the Friends Peace Testimony.
For th past six years he has been doing this largely in
prisons, through the Alternatives to Violence Project Inc.,
an agency of the New York Yearly Meeting.
Lawrence opened his talk by asking, “What is the
It is not the will of God,
cause of violence and war?”
Violence
love and peace.
of
he said, for God is a God
trying to
God,
againt
rebellion
in
man
is
occurs because
shape the world by the use of force.
An alternative to violence lies inthe concept
of ‘transforming power,’•which every person possesses.
“The spreading of this transforming power from person to
person is our only hope,” he said.
The life of Gandhi, filled with love and boldness,
“It
is a demonstration of transfãrming power in action.
Transformihg power
had hold of him,” Lawrence said.
our power to choose an
is the power of free will in us:
ego.
violent
alternative to a defensive,
To clarify that, Lawrence cited a personal exper
Although a pacifist, he had doubts about paifism
ience.
duririg.World War II, and he brought those doubts to the
But sitting
Society of Friends when he joined after the war.
in meeting he was filled with an enormous love and the con
viction that God does not ask people to choose between
Lawrence encountered a
accepting tyranny or going to war.
third alternative in Gandhi’s philosophy, to which he was
introduced at a seminar Larry Scott organized in Washington
D. C.
“Oh boy, what a relief” he experienced.
Transforming power is what Friends call the
inner Light, he said.
Early Friends used it to help achieve
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religious tolerance in England and to help abolish salvery
in the United States.
“There is no need for us to be any less powerful
today,” he said.
“We can choose the spiritual life.”
The alternative
if we are unwilling to exercise
our choice
is nuclear holocaust.
“We have come to the
end of the line,” Lawrence said.
“Piling up more weapons
only hastens the holocaust.”
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He closed with three concepts to meditate on:
There is no way to peace but peace itself;
no path to love but love itself.
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Only God can transform the world, but He can
only do it through us.
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Everything that anyone does is either an ex
tension of love, or a call for love.
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After a period of silent worship, the first session
of Inter-Mountain Yearly Meeting closed at 11:45.
Session II
The co—clerks opened the Friday afternoon session
at 3:15 with silent worship.
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Jack Haller then spoke, saying that in the past
year he has resigned several volunteer positions in order
to focus better on a limited number of concerns.
He offered
several reflections on “concerns,” and forwarded some con
cerns from other yar1y meetings:
“Striving to be an expressicn of God’s love
at work in the world can give one a sense of serenity in
the face of insurmountable odds,” he said.
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“A concern-oriented life should be ordered
from within”
-—“We can live and move to overcome the injustices
that surround us if we remain grounded in spiritual faith.”
Abolishing nuclear weapons is a concern of
London, Pacific and Lake Erie yearly meetings.
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the Japan,
Draft resistance is a concern of the Baltimore
and Wilmington yearly meetings.
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Human rights in Central America are a concern
of Pacific and South Central yearly meetings.
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Cynthia Moore then reported on Continuing Committee.
For the first time, she said, a Young Friends
representative from each of the four regions served on Con
“They encouraged. us to change,”
tinuing Committee this year.
and indeed there are changes in this year’s program.
Cynthia then reported on several matters that have
come before Continuing Committee:
Interest groups are not a route for concerns
to come before business meetings at IMYM,
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There should be a registration cutoff date for
IMYM.
There is a need for widespread assistance in
A paid leader has
the Junior Yearly.Meeting for children.
been added for the 3-5 year olds.
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Possible—changes -in theZiggeions for Of\ficers and Business of IMYM” should be sent to the Continuing
‘Committee clerkbefore February.
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Friends General Conference has decided to permit
individual meetings to become associate or full members of
FCG with the consent of their yearly meetings.
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Cynthia forwarded the following minute from
Continuing Committee to IMYM:
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“Flagstaff Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society
of Friends supports the appointment by Colorado General Meet
ing of a Colorado Friends Hispanic Committee.
We suggest
that this concern be brought to IMYM and that the committee
seek the involvement of interested Friends outside of Colorado
General Meeting.
We would support the establishment of such
a committee within Arizona Half—Yearly Meeting.”
Cynthia also forwarded the following minute:
“Continuing Corrunittee recommends that IMYM sup
port FWCC in its war tax resistance.
FWCC is creating a
withholding tax escrow account
7 and notifying the IRS
that the money will be turned over as soon as the IRS
recognizes conscientious objection for war tax resistance.”
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1983-l:IMYM_appoydt1Jensus Report subrnited
by the Continuing Committee, with a seven percent iidease
in membership.
The census recorded 717 adult members in 15
monthly meetings, 168 junior members and 439 regular attenders,
or a total of 1,324 people.
Cynthia then read a minute from Continuing Committee
regarding Central American refugees:
“Meetings and worship groups in IMYM have indicated
deep concern•on conditions in Central America.
Some meetings
have had little awareness of, or contact with, refugees
in this country.
Other meetings are offering sanctuary,
hospitality, transportation and personal assistance to the
extent possible.
A number of groups are seeking guidance.
Others are offering support to individuals who are aiding
refugees in any way.
IMYM recommends that meetings, and individuals,
continue to enhance their awareness of the plight of refuees
and assist either as a group or individually as they are led.
IMYM believes that all monthly meetings should
consider forms of witness that might be effective Li changing
the foreign policy of the United States.”
In response to several questions about the general
nature of the minute, Cynthia explained that it was drawn
from the concerns of several monthly meetings.
Some meet—
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ings, such as Tucson and Albuquerque, are deeply involved
Other meetings have been
in the refugee problem, she said
unaware there was a problem.
Friends asked for more time to discuss the refugee
issue, and to hear the concerns of individual monthly meet
ings.
Friends agreed to table the discussion
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of Central American refugees until Saturday morning.
Cynthia then read the following minute:
“Continuing Committee recommends that IMYM be
extended by one day next year, with Tuesday the early day,
and registration and meeting for worship on Wednesday.
Continuing Committee will consider the needs and wishes of
meetings and worship groups in planning the program this
February.”
She mentioned the need for balance between business,
friendship, worship and fellowship in any yearly meeting
Several Friends said they felt a need for more
schedule.
time for business meetings.
Cindy Taylor, coordinator of Young Friends, said
the Young Friends are clear in their desire for a longer
yearly meeting
especially those from small or isolated
meetings.
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Claire Leonard of Salt Lake asked how an optional,
added day, without any formal business scheduled, could
adversely affect anyone.
Brinton Turkal of Santa Fe said an extra day would
relieve the pressure of completing the business that comes
before IMYM each year.
Ted Church of Albuquerque said the need for further
discussion of Central America is an example of the need for
additional time at IMYM.
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Friends from Denver pointed out the hardship of
scheduling IMYM while Colorado schools are still in session,
and asked that the extra time be added at the end of IMYM
rather than the beginning.
IMYM approveContinuing Committee’s
by one day, starting
with registration on Wednesday.
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5Friendsappr2ythe following nominations
for next two year’s IMYM officers, from Arizona Half—Yearly
Meeting:
Clerk
Recording Clerk
Registrars
Treasurer
Convenor, Worship
Sharing
Convenor, Discussions
Frances McAllister, Flagstaff
Michael Miller, Phoenix
LaDonna and Carl Wallen, Tempe
Maude Ward, Phoenix
Arline Hobson, Pima
Joan Spencer,Pima
of Cathy
Webb, of Utah, and Ted Church, of New Mexico, as representa—
tivestoFwCC, and the nomination of Jan Miller, of Utah,
to the Finance Committee.
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dates
ext year..!s,yearly meifl3 as June 13-17 and a
oiceasJunel 7rZ
Ethel Hailer read letters of greetings from the
staff of the Quaker United Nations offices in New York
and Geneva, and from the American Friends Service Committee.
Frances McAllister, IMYM representative to AFSC
She told of hearing
Corporation, gave her annual report.
an AFSC staffer tell about her experience in war-torn Lebanon.
“To be there and try to give comfort to the people on the
streets was the right thing to do,” she said.
“I do not
believe it was wrong to be where the violence was.”
Meeting,
An epistle was read from the 48th Swedish Yearly
gathered in Stockholm on the theme of “Our Concerns.”
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“During this yearly meeting we have described a
concern as something which we experience as God’s will
for us, a compelling inner conviction,” the epistle said.
“It is fruitless to search for a concern, or to plan for it;
it comes of itself.”
After a period of pre-dinner worship,
closed at 5:30.
the meeting
Session III
The co-clerks opened the third session at 10:30
Saturday morning with a period of silent worship.
The minutes of the first and second
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sessions were corrected and approved.
Jonathan Vogel, coordinator of Young Friends of
North America, said the July 10-16 conference in Portland,
Oregon, is still open for registration.
Eric Wright, a staff member of the American Friends
Service Committee in Denver, Cliff and Sharon Pfiel of Pima
Meeting, Jim Dudley of Albuquerque Meeting and Robin Powel
son of Boulder Meeting then led a panel discussion on Central
American refugees.
Cliff Pfiel said Tucson Friends learned of refugees
In 1980 and l981,
fleeing Central America two years ago.
he said, 20,000 Salvadoran refugees were deported from the
The U. S. govern
United States; two were granted asylum here.
ment insists they are economic refugees, not political
refugees, even tIough 30,000 civilians were killed in El
The Immigration and Naturaliza
Salvador in 1980 and 1981.
tion Service tapped telephones, Cliff said, and knew of the
underground railroad’s activities in Tucson, but took no
The South Side Presbyterian Church in Tucson was
action.
the first to declare its activities public, and to offer
The Sanctuary Movement has grown to include
sanctuary.
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60-70 churches, but “still, the problem grows,” Cliff said.
Guatamalan refugees are massed in southern Mexico, and may
be rounded up and deported any time.
Sharon Pfiel said a Guatemalan priest took photo—
graphs of refugee camps in southern Mexico being firebombed
by aircraft.
The Pima Meeting has been “extremely supportive,”
she said, first by announcing support for South Side Pres
byterian Church and then by offering the meeting house as
The meeting also
a safe reception center for refugees.
provides a letter to people assisting refugees, saying
they are acting on behalf of the Pima Meeting.
Jim Dudley, clerk of Albuquerque meeting, said
“We in Albuquerque can sympathize with your hesitancy and
Albuquerque Friends wrested
uncertainty on this issue.”
before
agreeing on a minute offer
with the issue for months
ing aid to individuals helping refugees, supporting lobbying
efforts for immigration reform and encouraging loving con
frontations with INS
authorities.
Robin Powelson said Boulder Monthly Meeting spon
The meeting pro
sored a refugee family for nine months.
translation
language
lessons,
furniture,
vided clothing and
service and assistance from doctors and other professionals.
A lawyer who specializes in INS work is essential, too.
Participating Friends should “be prepared for
Sponsoring a family of five cost the
stress,” Robin said.
Boulder Meeting almost $10,000, largely due to legal prob
The book “Culture Clash” emphasizes the
lems and fees.
need to get a sponsored family on its feet as soon as possible,
the need to agree on expectations, and the need for a cut
off date for assistance.
Boulder’s family could not get asylum in the United
States, and the meeting finally arranged for them to go to
Canada, where things are working much better.
Eric Wright closed by pointing out the wide range
of Quaker responses to the refugee crisis.
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Friends agreed to reconvene in a plenary
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session at 9:15 Saturday evening to discuss the refugee
problem further
Ehtel Hailer then read a letter of greetings from
the Friends World Committee For Consultation in London.
Ted Church, an IMYM representative to FWCC,
duced the other three IMYM representatives:
intro
Cathy Webb of Logan discussed the Quaker Youth
Pilgrimage in the eastern United States this summer, and a
Southwest pilgrimage that is being organized for 12-15
Young Friends from across the nation next summer.
Bill Charland of Mountain View discussed the Right
Sharing of World Resources program, which is providing some
financial support to El Centro de Paz, and the Quaker In
The FWCC Section of the Americas
ternational Aid program.
annual meeting will be held November 18-20 in Denver, he
said.
LaDonna Wallen of Tempe, just back from London
Yearly Meeting, urged Friends to see slides of the 1983
Triennial in enya Saturday evening. The 1985 Triennial
will be held in Cuernavaca, she said.
Ted, a member of the executive committee of FWCC,
said traveling field staff will replace the Midwest office,
Clara Hum,
and should make FWCC more visible to Friends.
the head resident of Pendle Hill, will staff the far
Western U.S., he said.
Johan Maurer will staff the Midwest.
Time having run out, Session III closed at noon
and was followed immediately by a Continuing Committee meet
ing.
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Session IV
The co—clerks opened the fourth session at 3:15
Saturday afternoon in silent waiting upon the Spirit.
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Minutes of Session III were approved.
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IMYM commended the Friends World Com
mittee For Consultation for its war tax resistance,
and asked that FWCC keep the meeting informed of new develop
FWCC is creating a war
rnents in its tax resistance effort.
tax escrow account, and notifying the IRS that the money
will be turned over as soon as the IRS makes a provision
for conscietious objection for war tax resistance.
Penny Thron-Weber of Denver announced that a meet
ing for IMYM women will be held in Denver the second week
Interested women should contact Penny,
end in January.
Judy Danielson or Francie Mueller.
Junior Yearly Meeting was reported to be in fine
shape by coordinator Sara Keeney and Junior Friends Jennifer
Post, Denver, Rebecca Heft, Salt Lake, and Morgan Harris,
Texas.
Marian Hoge gave the registrar’s report, recom
mending that the June 1 cutoff date for registration be
She said the campground and
standard procedure from now on.
Tipi Village are still in too much demand to meet everyone’s
wishes, but the Abiquiu campground is proving popular this
Registration has reached 432 people this year, “not
year.
quite so crunched” as 498 last year.
Kitt Bejnar then gave the treasurer’s report,
outlining the budgets for this year and 1984 (attached).
Should the budget reflect any additional costs
from adding a day to IMYM next year, a Friend asked.
Continuing Committee will have to consider that in February,
Friends agreed.
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Al Hoge, Finance Committee chairman, said many
meetings have increased their annual assessment payments to
IMYM, providing a financial cushion to yearly meeting.
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Friends approved the budget.
Cindy Taylor announced that Friends General Con
ference, Friends United Meeting, and Evangelical Friends
Alliance will sponsor a Youth Quake during the summer of
1984.
Cynthia Moore then reported on Continuing Committee.
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IMYM approved the following officers
for IMYM for the next two years:
Clerk of Continuing Committee
Coordinators, Junior Yearly
Reporter
Booksellers
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Chairman, Young Friends
Advisers
Convenor, Watching Committee
Marie Clark, Phoenix
Tom & Suzanne Brown, Flagstaff
Charlotte Minor, Flagstaff
Goodwin & Virginia Petersen,
Co ch is e
Richard Gill, Flagstaff
Mary Lou Coppock, Phoenix
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Friends approved Continuing Committee’s
nomination of Dick Counihan of Boulder to replace Frances
McAllister of Flagstaff as IMYM’s representative to the AFSC
corporation.
Friends approved Young Friends’ nomina
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tion of Jonathan Taylor of Pima Meeting and Becky Oliphant
of Phoenix as coordinators of Young Friends,repiacing Cindy
Taylor.
Friends approved the following minute
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submitted by Albuquergue Monthly Meeting; to be forwarded
to President Reagan, the secretary of state, the secretary
of defense and to the chairmen of the defense and military
appropriations committees in the House and Senate, as well
as the Meeting for Sufferings, Friends Committee on National
Legislation, Friends World Committee for Consultation,
Section of the Americas (for the World Office and for
the Quaker United Nations Offices)
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At its meeting at Ghost Ranch near Abiquiu,
New Mexico, on June 11, 1983, Inter-Mountain Yearly Meeting
of the Religious Society of Frieids jQied.in.the concern
of Friends in Britain and Europe and the many other people
of the countries in their areas as shown by the numerous
most notably the women at Greenham
public demonstrations
Common
and urged the government of the United States not
to promote the deployment of the Cruise and Pershing II
missiles in Europe but instead to pursue diligently and with
sincerity the stated alternative of a negotiated agreement
at Geneva.
In a world already overstocked with nuclear
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weapons, this deployment would be a dangerous escalation
of the arms race making a nuclear war either by accident or
design much more likely.
We encourage both the administration and the
Congress to provide leadership in reducing tensions and pro
moting collaboration through international organizations
like the United Nations in seeking general and complete
disarmament.”
Dan Shaffer of Tempe then gave a report on the
Friends Committee on National Legislation, and said there
we seem
appears to be a failure of vision in the world:
unwilling to envision nuclear holocaust, and unable to
envision a disarmed world.
In its 40th year, FCNL has chosen
arms reduc
the following legislative priorities, he said:
tion, world çrder, minority job training, and Native American
rights.
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IMYM approved Continuing Committee’s
nomination of Ann Dudley Edwards as New Mexico Quarterly
Meeting representative to FCNL, and Josephine Coats as Young
Friends adviser to New Mexico Quarterly.
Jack Hailer reported that the ad hãc committee
on Central American refugees had just requested the approval
of the budget he delayed until the plenary session Saturday
night.
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Friends approved the following minute:
“IMYM encourages Friends to study the following
topics regarding the Friends World Committee for Consultation.
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Meetings and worship groups are asked to direct their comments
The
and reports to one of the IMYM representatives to FWCC.
status
the
on
convenor of the representatives will report
The topics are:
of such actions at the next yearly meeting.
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Support for the FWCC Annual Meeting in Denver.
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The question of holding another World Conference
of Friends.
The need for identifying Friends who can repre
sent Friends at International Conferences.
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The financial situation of FWCC.
Ethel Hailer then shared several epistles with the
meeting:
Tom Schroeder’s message announcing an interest
“Quakers have no laurels to stand upon,”
group on Racism.
Our gracious
“Work to end racial bigotry is needed.
he wrote.
‘put-downs’
the
about
out
speak
to
reluctant
were
Kenyan hosts
they experienced from Quakers.”
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Lake Erie Yearly Meeting’s epistle, which opened
“Stand still in that
with the words of George Fox in 1652:
Stand still in the light and submit to
which is pure
it, and then content comes.”
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...
Australia Yearly Meeting’s epistle, which said
in part, “Wait for the light, then push,’ an instruction on
buses, which could be a slogan for Quakers.”
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The session closed in silent worship.
Plenary Session
The co-clerks opened on a plenary session on Central
American refugees at 9:15 Saturday night.
Jack Hailer said that it was his understanding that
the Central American minute forwarded from Continuing Com
mittee on Friday had been tabled, and was not yet approved
by IMYM.
Cliff Pfiel of Pima Meeting and Don Sheldon of
Mountain View presented a minute prepared after the ad hoc
It read:
committee meeting on Central America.
“Individuals attending Inter-Mountain Yearly Meet
ing who have had direct contact with Central American refugees
expressed deep concern for the plight of these people who
are being forced to leave their homelands.
IMYM recommends
that Meetings already involved with refugees.help. .other Friends
to become informed and to participate with the guidance of
the inner Light in this time of desparate need.
I.
The above minute shall be sent to all other
yearly Meetings in North America in the form of an epistle.
II.
IMYM shall appoint a Released Friend for
the puroose of inter-visitation and education within IMYM
through the end of 1983.
That Released Friend shall also
be IMYM’s delegate to other Yearly Meetings in North America
for the same period to carry our concern for Central American
refugees to other Friends.
IMYM shall establish a special fund account
III.
for the assistance of our Released Friend.
a.
IMYM shall deposit $500 seed money into th
account.
b.
IMYM shall send a letter to our Monthly Meetings
and worship groups, requesting (1) that each such group
contribute a minimum of $2.00 per member into the Released
Friend Fund and (2) that individual members also be urged
to contribute to the fund.”
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Jonathan Taylor of Pima Meeting asked whether IMYM
should make a statement as a corporate body, rather than
citing the feelings of members.
Friends wrestled with that question.
A minute from Flagstaff Meeting regarding Central
American refugees was read:
“As Friends we reject the use of violence to resolve
conflict and doubt that the use of force will lead to any
We oppose all outside military and covert
meaningful end.
intervention in Central America and urge the negotiation of.
a peaceful settlement.
We reaffirm our conviction that our first allegiance
is to God, and if this conflicts with any compulsion of the
State, we serve our country best by remaining true to our
higher loyalty.
Our government’s policies and actions contribute
to suffering in Central America, causing hundreds of thousands
As long as our government refuses to
to flee their homes.
grant them either political asylum or extended voluntary
departure status in violation of both spiritual and interna
tional law, we affirm that civil disobedience such as aiding
Central American refugees in avoiding capture and deportation
is a course of action in accord with our religious conviction.
We commend and offer our spiritual and material
resources as a Meeting to those among us who assist Central
American refugees, and extend to these Friends our loving
support as they provide aid, transport, and comfort to
We extend our love and respect
Central American refugees.
position.”
a
different
take
individuals
who
to
Several Friends, and the recording clerk, offered
The clerks
minutes which the meeting could not accept.
asked for a period of silent worship.
Juan Pasco of the Mexico City Monthly Meeting
commended the Flagstaff minute, and said that he felt the
IMYM minute should address the political violence which
causes the refugee crisis, and should support the efforts
of Friends who are assisting refugees.
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Then drawing from the original minute, the Flag
staff minute and the minute of the ad hoc group, the
clerks proposed the following minute regarding Central
American refugees:
Meetings and worship groups in Inter—Mountain Yearly
Meeting have indicated deep concern about conditions in
Our government’s policies and actions
Central America.
contribute to suffering in Central America, causing hundreds
As Friends we reject the
of thousands to flee their homes.
t.
We oppose all mili
use of violence to resolve conflic
l America and urge the
in
ntion
Centra
tary and covert interve
negotiation of a peaceful settlement.
Some meetings in IMYM have had little awareness of
Other meetings
refugees in this country.
or contact with
are offering sanctuary, hospitality, transportation and
We commend
personal assistance to the extent possible.
es, and
l
refuge
those among us who assist Centra American
extend
our
t.
We
s
suppor
our
loving
to
Friend
these
extend
love and respect to individuals who take a different position.
IMYM urges all Friends to become informed about the
refugee issue and to participate with the guidance of the
inner Light in this time of desperate need.
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Friends approved the minute.
In a spirit of joy over the process of consensus
at work in the meeting, the plenary session concluded at
11 p.m.
Session V
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The co-clerks opened the final meeting for worship
for business at 10:15 Sunday morning with a period of silent
worship.
The minutes of Session IV and the
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Plenary Session were corrected and approved.
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Marian Hoge, IMYM registrar, reported that this
year’s gathering included 81 Friends from Arizona, 136 from
Colorado, 151 from New Mexico, 37 from Utah, 13 from Texas
There were 290
and 14 from other parts of the nation.
adults, 116 children and 26 teenagers.
Connie Gould, coordinator of Junior Yearly Meet
ing, asked for volunteers to join the Junior Yearly Meeting
She said the sharing
during the last few hours of IMYM.
she saw between adults and children this year impressed her
as an important part of the Quaker Peace Testimony.
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IMYM commended those who made the Junior
Yearly Meeting and Young Friends programs a success this year.
Marbie Brault of Pima Meeting, coordinator of the
doll project, reported that Friends had completed 95
dolls and animals for Central American refugee children
this year.
Larry Leonard of Salt Lake City, who worked with
his wife Claire and 43 9—12 year olds, showed the meeting
60 little sailboats the children had made and packaged for
refugee children in Costa Rica.
Jack Hailer read an epistle from the 107th Den
mark Yearly Meeting, which said in part, “We have experienced
we delight
our yearly meeting as a stained glass window
in our diversity.”
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Phyllis Thompson, a member of the Watching Committee,
then read the IMYM epistle, attached.
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Friends approved the epistle.
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IMYM expressed appreciation to all
Friends who have made the past two years’ annual meetings
a success.
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IMYM expressed appreciation to Ghost
Ranch for daring to have us despite the office fire this spring.
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Kevin Hassett of Salt Lake then began
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inter-generati activities
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really like to
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express our thanks to Cindy Taylor for her work in the last
two years,” he said. Becky Oliphant and Jonathan Taylor
Ken Poweison added that Early Young Friends
will replace her.
joined Young Friends in everything except worship sharing
Each seemed to benefit from the contact, he
this year.
It was a demonstration of what is possible with love
said.
and respect between different age groups and different kinds
An epistle from Junior Yearly Meeting
of people, Ken said.
was read by Axnanda Brown:
“We had 39 children whose ages were from nine
We put on a play about two
to twelve who wrote this letter.
e.
We
g
put it on Saturday night
primitive tribes makin peac
e.
ke
e
We
er
tal d about what Yearly
for everyon who was th
st
of them said that they were
le
g
mo
and
op
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ds and were excited to make
r
en
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old
s
fri
see
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to
th
ay
gla
alw
Most of us came from over five hundred miles
new Ones.
away to get here.
The nine to twelve year olds made boats to send
to Central American Refugee children living in Costa Rica.
We hope this will make them feel better.”
The ninth annual gathering of Inter-Mountain
Yearly Meeting Closed with a meeting for worship.
Respectfuy submitted,
-\
Jack Hailer and Ethel Hailer
Co-clerks
Tom Harmon
Recording Clerk
TREASURER’S REPORT TO IMYM
-
JUNE 1983
1983
Estimate
1984
Budget
$400.00
$450
$500
160.00
100
100
FWC C
1,810.16
1,800
2,000
AF Sc
334.00
500
500
YFNA
413 94
500
500
NCPM
386.90
500
500
400
200
600.00
600
600
Print/Post
1,055.03
1,200
1,500
Resource Leader
1,014.00
525
1,050
401.40
700
700
100
225
200
200
1982
Final
Expenses
Travel
Sein Memorial
Howard Brinton(2 yrs)
.
Youth Pilgrimage
Friends Bulletin
Children & JYM
Young Friends
Contingency/Misc.
504.47
Extra to Triennial
400.00
$7, 575__
$8,575
$3,549.00
$3,800
$4,000
1,784.92
1,700
1,500
57298
400
400
1,666.65
2,385
2,385
Bookstore
185.29
150
160
Total:
$7 , 758 84
$8,435
$8,445
+$278.94
÷$860
—$130
$5,883.81
$5,244
$3, 613
$1, 500
$3,000
$7,479.90
2,700.00
Triennial Reserve
$10,179.90
Income
Assessments
Contributions
Interest
Registration(late fees)
.
Net Income
General Reserve
Triennial Reserve
December 31,
1982 Checking Account:
Savings Account:
$2,015.00
$3,868.81
June 12,
1983
To Friends every-where, we send Our loving greetings
Inter—Mountain Yearly Meeting gathered June 9-12,
,
83
ar
the base of great red cliff rocks that glow surely
19
ne
r
e
de
th
un
darkening sky as if they held light deep inside.
Steadily we found our o spirits lifting into that trans
foiing power, that peace, that light, which we came here
to find.
Group we
From our Monthly Meetings and Worship 3
al
gs
ny
t
du
d
in
ma
ny
gh
vi
an
el
ith
us
public con
di
ma
fe
ou
w
in
br
ore than ever before,
cerns• We also brought our children
Young and Younger Friends joined older Friends as they
played with, cared for, and attended to the concerns of one
another in carrying forward the work of the meeting, each
Young Friends, 7-86
in ways that best suited their ages.
years old, made boats and dolls for children in refugee
ca-tlps.
Adult Friends have found ways to assist refugees
Each group became
to leave th terror of their homelands
tjo not their own.
ra
d
t
ne
y
re
e
gl
ha
to 3
ge
awar of w
matte
lOVin
.
g,
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ps fostered a
tin
S
e
is
ho
ou
ee
th
th
ug
gr
fU
f
0
m
Thro
strong feeling of being tender with each other in every way.
We knew therefore that we could confidently depend on our
own richly creative resources to resolve within our meetings
the difficult issues we had to tackle.
Because we recognized also that our power as a
QVC, and that these
meeting rises from worship and exchanged 1
are nourished not so irrnediate1y by addressing world prob
lems as by meeting in shared activity and meditation we
have agreed to add another day next year to allow us more
time for these.
We also gladly realized that Quakers could respo
to such concerns as that of FWCC for right shing of resources,
appraising ways of taking up the work ourselves to carry
economic development projects to underdeveloped Countries.
We are saddened by the fear and mistgt arising from economic
exploitation here and elsewhere
Deeply distressed by the proliferation of nuclear
weapons in what seems a race to destroy the world, we support
FWCC’s stand on war taxes, and we join London Yearly Meeting
in deploring the deployment in Europe of Pershing II’s and
Cruise missiles
Slides of the Triennial gathering in Kenya
0
and the moving words of those who attended gave us an immediate
sense of the closeness of our whole world family of Friends.
But the
lovingly, longest
immediate need of
We are seeking to
troubling issue we wrestled with most
and most seriously, was the immense and
Central American refugees for our help.
learn more about how to give these desperate
people the kind of help which will make the greatest dif
ference.
We want to tell other yearly meetings of this grave
need so that they too can stand ready to act in love when such
action is asked of them.
That we struggled so long to find the right way
for us to take, is witness to the hard complexities we faced.
The lightening of spirit, the gladness we felt together when
the right way opened before us, is witness to the transforming
power of love, in a gathered meetina, a light that glows
from inside.
It is in that light that we hold you.
Zincerely,
U
sack and Ethel Hailer
Clerks, Inter—Mountain Yearly Meeting
Miller, Jan. 538 Douglas SaJt Lake City 84102 ( Cleric, Salt Lake Meeting
Snow, Robyn (Editor The Circle)
2146 W 200 S Vernal, UT 814078
Heft, Ralph, Ruth, Rebecca
( for Moab Friends
Greenberg, Annette 1453 E. Center Moab, UT 84532
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