Friends and Safety:
FGConnections Summer 2005
QUIP Annual Meeting, 2005
by Rosalie V. Grafe [edited for length]
 TOP: QUIP members share a congenial lunch on the Pacific shore looking out toward Twin Rocks.
BOTTOM: Attendance at the QUIP annual meeting includes a group photo. Members are standing in the main room of the conference center at Twin Rocks in Oregon. Next year's meeting will be held at Powell House near Chatham, New York. Quaker authors, publishers, booksellers and those serving on publications committees are welcome. See http://quip.quaker.org for details. |
Twenty-eight Friends from the United States and Great Britain gathered at Twin Rocks Friends Camp, Rockaway, Oregon for the annual meeting of Quakers United in Publishing (QUIP). The group met from April 21–24, 2005 on the theme “Fostering Lifelong Learning: Developing Quaker Readers of All Ages.”
Gil Skidmore of Britain Yearly Meeting led us in understanding the virtue of writing our own journeys in her talk “Past and Present Voices: Encouraging Lifelong Learning Using Spiritual Autobiography.” Michael Birkel of Clear Creek Meeting (IN) and Professor of Religion at Earlham College spoke on “Inviting the Reader to Spiritual Growth.” A panel of young Friends (Zion Klos, Rachel Stacy, Claire Reddy, Geoffrey Black, Milam Smith, Martin Kelley) spoke on: “How do they get their Quaker/spiritual learning? What resources have been most helpful?” We older ones were greatly spoken to and challenged to learn:
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what their meeting libraries contained, (or did not contain)
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what books they found and read on their own,
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what books they had seen at home when growing up,
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what books had been handed to them in a timely way by an important mentor.
QUIP’s mid-year meeting will be held on September 24 at the Friends SW Burial Ground, Upper Darby, PA.
QUIP 2006 will be held April 27–30 at Powell House in upstate New York with the theme: “Sound Business Practice for Publications.”
QUIP 2007 will be held April 26–29 at Glenthorne in the Lake District
of England.
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