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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,
The first plenary session was opened by co
June 10, 1983.
clerks Jack and Ethel Hailer at 10:30 a.m.
“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
She suggested that
that hand-waving was also disquieting.
smiles and clasped hands might provide a happy medium
for approval.
Arizona Half—
Jack Hailer called the roll.
Yearly Meeting was repreented 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 Meeting by Albuquer
que, Durango, Farmington, 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 represented.
The clerks read traveling minutes introducing
Claire Gaibraith of Dallas Monthly Meeting and Alice
The clerks
Deutsch of Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative)
Yearly
Meeting;
Pacific
clerk
of
also welcomed Robert Vogel,
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 Corrjnittee from Pasadena; Bob and Catherine
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Wahrmund of Texas, representing the Friends Committee on
National Legislation; and visitors from California, Wyoming,
Mexico, Hawaii and Massachusetts.
Larry Scott of McNeal, Arizona, then introduced
our resource speaker, Lawrence Apsey of New York Yearly
The author of a booklet entitled Transforming
Meeting.
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 the 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
he said, for God is a God of love and peace.
occurs because man is in rebellion againát God, trying to
shape the world by the use of force.
An alternative to violence lies in the 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 transforming power in action.
Transforming power
had hold of him,” Lawrence said.
our power to choose n
is the power of free will in us:
alternative to a defensive, violent ego.
To clarify that, Lawrence cited a personal exper
ience.
Although a pacifist, he had doubts about pacifism
during.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
ID. 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.
Jack Hailer 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 yearly meetings:
“Striving to be an expression 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
tinuing Committee this year.
“They encouraged us to change,”
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
the Junior Yearly Meeting for children.
A paid leader has
been added for the 3-5 year olds.
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Possible changes in the “Suggestions for Of—
ficers and Business of IMYM” should be sent to the Continuing
Committee clerk before 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 Committee recommends that IMYM sup
port FWCC in its war tax resistance.
FWCC is creating a
withholding tax escrow account, and notifying the IRS
that the money will be turned over as soon as the IRS
recognizes conscientious objection for war tax resistance.”
IMYM approved the Census Report submitted
1983-1:
by the Continuing Committee, with a seven percent increase
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 refugees
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 in changing
the foreign policy of the United States.”
In response to several auestions 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.
issue,
ings.
Friends asked for more time to discuss the refugee
and to hear the concerns of individual monthly meet
1983-3:
Friends agreed to table the discussion
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
schedule.
Several Friends said they felt a need for more
time for business meetings.
Cindy Taylor, coordinator of Young Friends, said
the Young Friends are clear in their desire for a longer
especially those from small or isolated
yearly meeting
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.
1983-4:
IMYM approved Continuing Committee’s
recommendation that IMYM be extended by one day, starting
with registration on Wednesday.
Friends approved the following nominations
1983-5:
next
for
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, Pirna
Friends approved the nominations of Cathy
1983-6:
Webb, of Utah, and Ted Church, of New Mexico, as representa
tives to FWCC, and the nomination of Jan Miller, of Utah,
to the Finance Committee.
Friends approved a first choice of dates
1983—7:
for next year’s yearly meeting as June 13-17 and a second
choice as June 17—22.
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
“I do not
streets was the right thing to do,” she said.
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.
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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.
1983—8:
The minutes of the first and second
sessions were corrected and approved.
Jonathan Vogel, coordinator of Young Friends of
North America, said the July 10-16 conference in Portland,
Oregnn, 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 Albuguergue 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
fleeing Central America two years ago.
In 1980 and 1981,
he said, 20,000 Salvadoran refugees were deported from the
United States; two were granted asylum here.
The U. S. govern
ment insists they are economic refugees, not political
refugees, even though 30,000 civilians were killed in El
Salvador in 1980 and 1981.
The Immigration and Naturaliza
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
sanctuary.
The Sanctuary Movement has grown to include
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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,”
first by announcing support for South Side Pres
said,
she
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.”
with the issue for months before agreeing on a minute offer
ing aid to individuals helping refugees, supporting lobbying
efforts for irmigration reform and encouraging loving con
authorities.
frontations with INS
Robin Powelson said Boulder Monthly Meeting spon
The meeting pro
sored a refugee family for nine months.
vided clothing and furniture, language lessons, translation
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
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.
stress,”
Robin said.
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.
1983-9:
Friends agreed to reconvene in a plenary
session at 9:15 Saturday evening to discuss the refugee
problem further.
Ehtel Haller 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
ternational Aid program.
The FWCC Section of the Americas
annual meetjncT 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 Renya Saturday ev.sning. 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,
and should make FWCC more visible to Friends.
Clara Horn,
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.
1983—9:
Minutes of Session III were approved.
1983—10:
IMYM commended the Friends World Coin
raittee For Consultation for its war tax resistance,
and asked that FWCC keep the meeting informed of new develop
FWCC is creating a war
ments 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 he 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.
Al Hoge, Finance Committee chairman, said many
meetings have increased their annual assessment payments to
IMYM, providing a financial cushion to yearly meeting.
1983-11:
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.
IMYM approved the following officers
1983—12:
for IMYM for the next two years:
Clerk of Continuing Committee
Coordinators, Junior Yeerly
Reporter
Booksellers
Chairman, Young Friends
Advisers
Convenor, Watching Committee
Marie Clark, Phoenix
Tom & Suzanne Brown, Flagstnff
Charlotte Minor, Flagstaff
Goodwin & Virginia Petersen,
Cochise
Richard Gill, Flagstaff
Mary Lou Coppock, Phoenix
Friends approved Continuing Committee’s
1983—13:
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
1983—14:
tion of Jonathan Taylor of Pima Meeting and Becky O1iphart
of Phoenix as coordinators of Young Friends, replacing Cindy
Taylor.
Friends anoroved the following minute
1983—15:
submitted by Albuguergue 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 arid for
the Quaker United Nations Offices)
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“At its meeting at Ghost Ranch near Abiquju,
New Mexico, on June 11, 1983, Inter—r4ountain Yearly Meeting
joined inthe concern
of the Religious Society of
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
and urged the governen of the United States not
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to prom
the dep1oent of the Cruise and Pershing Ii
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in Europe but instead to pursue diligently and with
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the stated alternative of a negotiated agreement
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at Geneva.
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we
deployment would be a dangerous escalation
of the arms race making a nuclear war either by accident or
design much more likely.
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We encourage both the administration and the
Congress to provide leadership in reducing tensions and pro
nizj
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moting collaboration through international 0
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and complete
like the United Nations in seeking gene
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disarmam
Dan Shaffer of Tempe then gave a report on the
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and said there
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the following legislatjje priorities, he said:
tion, world order, minority job training, and Native American
rights.
IMYM approved Continuing Committee’s
l983_16:
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 hoc committee
on Central American refugees had just requested the approval
of the budget he delayed until the Plenary session Saturday
night.
198317:
Friends approve.d the following rninut:
“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
and reports to one of the IMYM representatives to FWCC.
The
convenor of the representatives will report on the status
of such actions at the next yearly meeting.
The topics are:
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Support for the FWCC Annual Meeting in Denver.
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:
Torn Schroeder’s message announcing an interest
group on Racism.
“Quakers have no laurels to stand upon,”
he wrote.
“Work t.o end racial bigotry is needed.
Our gracious
Kenyan hosts were reluctant to speak out about the ‘put—downs’
they experienced from Quakers.”
Lake Erie Yearly Meeting’s epistle, which opened
with the words of George Fox in 1652:
“Stand still in that
which is pure
Stand still in the light and submit to
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.
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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
rnittee on Friday had been tabled, and was not yet approved
by IMYM.
Cliff Pfiei of Pima Meeting and Don Sheldon of
Mountain View presented a minute prepared after the ad hoc
It read:
committee meeting on Central America.
“Indivjdua is attending Inter-Mounta in 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 desparae 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 purpose of inter-visitation and education within 1MYM
That Released Friend shall also
through the end of 1983.
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.
III.
IMYM shall establish a special fund account
for the assistance of our Released Friend.
a.
IMYM shall deposit $500 seed money into this
account.
b.
IMYM shall send a letter to our Monthly Meetings
and worship groups, requesting (1) that each such group
contribute a minimurn 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 IIYM
should make a statement as a corporate body, rather than
citing the feelings of members.
Friends wrestled with that cjuestion.
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
compulsion of the
is to Cod, and if this conflicts with
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.
to individuals who take a different position.”
Several Friends, and the recording clerk, offered
The clerks
minutes which the meeting could not accept.
of
worship.
silent
asked for a period
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.
We oppose all mili
use of violence to resolve conflict.
tary and covert intervention in Central America and urge the
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.
and
refugees,
those among us who assist Central American
our
We
extend
support.
our
loving
extend to these Friends
position.
different
take
a
who
love and respect to individuals
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.
1983-18:
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
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
1983—19:
Plenary Session were corrected and approved.
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Marian Hope, IMYM registrar, reported that this
included 81 Friends from Arizona, 136 from
gathering
year’s
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.
1983—20:
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 hàd 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, ITWe have experienced
we delight
our yearly meeting as a stained glass window
in our diversity.
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Phyllis Thompson,
then read the IMYM epistle,
1983—21:
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a member of the Watching Committee,
attached.
Friends approved the epistle.
1983—22:
IMYM expressed appreciation to all
Friends who have made the past two years’ annual meetings
a success.
IMYM expressed appreciation to Ghost
1983—23:
Ranch for daring to have us despite the office fire this spring.
19
Kevin Hassett of Salt Lake then began
1983-24:
The inter-generational activities
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Frien
Young
the
Tim Shaw will replace
worked very well this year, he said.
Elizabeth Reeves as Young Friends representative from Arizona
Becky Oliphant will be Young Friends
next year, he said.
Elizabeth Reeves
representative to the Finance Corm-nittee.
“We’d really like to
will sit on the Watching Committee.
express our thanks to Cindy Taylor for her work in the last
two years,” he said. Becki Oliphant and Jonathan Taylor
Ken Powelson 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.
:
a
Brown
by
Anand
was read
“We had 39 children whose ages were from nine
We put on a play about two
to twelve who wrote this letter.
We put it on Saturday night
primitive tribes making peace.
We talked about what Yearly
for everyone who was there.
Meeting means to people and most of them said that they were
always glad to see their old friends and were excited to make
Most of i’s 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.
Respectfully submitted,
-
-\
Jack Haller and Ethel Haller
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
FWCC
1,810.16
1,800
2,000
AF SC
334.00
500
500
YFNA
413.94
500
500
NC PM
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
$7,575
$8,575
$3,549.00
$3,800
$4,000
1,784.92
1,700
1,500
572.98
400
400
1,666.65
2,385
2,385
185.29
150
160
$7,758.84
$8,435
$8,4 4 5
±$278.94
±$860
—$130
$5,883.81
$5,244
$3, 613
$1,500
$3,000
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
$7,479.90
2,700.00
Triennial Reserve
$10,179.90
Income
Assessments
Contributions
Interest
Registration(late fees)
Bookstore
—
Total:
Net Income
General Reserve
Triennial Reserve
December 31,
1982 Checking Account:
Savings Account:
$2,015.00
$3,868.81
June 12,
1983
To Friends ever7here
we send our loving greetings.
ed June 9-12,
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Youa Friends, 7-86
in ways that best suited their ages.
years old, made boats and dolls for children in refugee
Adult Friends have found ways to assist refugees
camps.
Each group became
to leave the terror of t:ejr homelands
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We knew therefore that We could confidently depend on Our
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the difficult issues we had to tackle.
recognj also that our Power as a
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have agreed to add another day next year to allow us more
time for these.
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to such concerns as that of FWCC for right sharing of resources,
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We are saddened by the fear and mistst arising from economic
exploitation here and elsewhere.
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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 It’s and
Cruise missiles. Slides of the Triennial gathering in Kenya
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 troubling issue we wrestled with most
lovingly, longest and most seriously, was the immense and
immediate need of Central American refugees for our help.
We are seeking to 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 meeting, a light that glows
from inside.
It is in that light that we hold you.
Sincerely,
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Jack and Ethel Haller
Clerks, Inter-Mountain Yearly fleeting