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Page 1 Radnor Monthly Meeting Bulletin January 2013 Monthly Bulletin January, 2013 Religious Society of Friends P.O. Box 8196, Radnor, PA 19087-8196 [email protected] 610 Conestoga Road (Conestoga & Sproul Road/Rt.320), Villanova, PA 19085 Worship does not consist in achieving a mental state of concentrated isolation from one’s fellows. But in the depth of common worship it is as if we found our separate lives were all one life, within whom we live and move and have our being. Communication seems to take place sometimes without words having been spoken. In the silence we received an unexpected commission to bear in loving intentness the spiritual need of another person sitting nearby. And that person goes away, uplifted and refreshed. Sometimes in that beautiful experience of living worship which the Friends have called “the gathered meeting,” it is as if we joined hands and hearts, and lifted them together toward the unspeakable glory. Or it is as if that light and warmth dissolved us together into one. Tears are not to be scorned, then, for we stand together in the Holy of Holies. Thomas R. Kelly, The Eternal Promise. New York: Harpers, 1941, p.34. 10:00 a.m. First Day School 10:00 a.m. Meeting for Worship (Childcare provided) 11:15 a.m. Forum Clerk: Patsy Dent Associate: Julia Hanson Treasurer: Bart Harrison P.O. Box 1382 Bryn Mawr. PA 19010 Editor: Burt Dallas Associate: Janet Schroeder [email protected] Secretary: Andrea Nuneviller [email protected]

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Radnor Quaker Meeting Newsletter, January 2013

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Page 1: Radnor Newsletter January 2013

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Radnor Monthly Meeting Bulletin January 2013

Monthly Bulletin January, 2013

Religious Society of Friends P.O. Box 8196, Radnor, PA 19087-8196

[email protected] 610 Conestoga Road (Conestoga & Sproul Road/Rt.320), Villanova, PA 19085

Worship does not consist in achieving a mental state of concentrated isolation from

one’s fellows. But in the depth of common worship it is as if we found our separate lives

were all one life, within whom we live and move and have our being. Communication

seems to take place sometimes without words having been spoken. In the silence we

received an unexpected commission to bear in loving intentness the spiritual need of

another person sitting nearby. And that person goes away, uplifted and refreshed.

Sometimes in that beautiful experience of living worship which the Friends have called

“the gathered meeting,” it is as if we joined hands and hearts, and lifted them together

toward the unspeakable glory. Or it is as if that light and warmth dissolved us together

into one. Tears are not to be scorned, then, for we stand together in the Holy of Holies.

Thomas R. Kelly, The Eternal Promise. New York: Harpers, 1941, p.34.

10:00 a.m. First Day School 10:00 a.m. Meeting for Worship (Childcare provided) 11:15 a.m. Forum Clerk: Patsy Dent Associate: Julia Hanson

Treasurer: Bart Harrison P.O. Box 1382 Bryn Mawr. PA 19010 Editor: Burt Dallas Associate: Janet Schroeder [email protected] Secretary: Andrea Nuneviller [email protected]

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Query

Meeting for Worship

Are our Meetings for worship held in stilled, expectant waiting upon God?

As we worship is there a living silence in which we are drawn together by the power of God in our midst?

Is the spirit of our worship together one that nurtures all worshipers?

How does our Meeting respond when the vocal ministry seems inappropriate, or when the meeting for worship is consistently not gathered?

Do I faithfully attend meeting with heart and mind prepared for worship, clear of any predetermination to speak or not to speak, and expecting that worship will be a source of strength and guidance?

Does worship deepen my relationship with God, increase my faithfulness, and refresh and renew my daily life, both inwardly and in my relationship with others?

Have I experienced in worship that direct leading to listen or to speak, and have I been faithful to my own experience?

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Calendar Sunday, January 6 10:00 a.m. First Day School 10:00 a.m. Meeting for Worship Thursday, January 10 7:00 p.m. Worship and Ministry Sunday, January 13 8:30 a.m. Peace & Social Concerns Committee Meeting 10:00 a.m. First Day School 10:00 a.m. Meeting for Worship 11:15 a.m. Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business

Sunday, January 20 10:00 a.m. First Day School 10:00 a.m. Meeting for Worship Wednesday, January 23 Please send items for the February Newsletter to [email protected]

Saturday, January 26, 2013 8:30 a.m.- 1:00 p.m. Winter Retreat “What Do Quakers Believe?” Facilitated by Arthur Larrabee, Sponsored by Worship & Ministry All Welcome! Lunch provided. Signup sheet in fellowship room. Sunday, January 27 8:30 a.m. Quarterly Meeting at Old Haverford Meeting, 235 E. Eagle Rd, Havertown 10:00 a.m. First Day School 10:00 a.m. Meeting for Worship 11:00 a.m. Fellowship Lunch

Worship & Ministry would like to ask members to Please Speak Up when giving a spiritual message in Meeting for Worship.

We send out this plea as it has come to our attention that members and attenders with hearing loss are missing the spiritual meaning of many messages.

Worship & Ministry is also looking into the hearing system, in conjunction with Property, but in the meantime we ask you to remember to:

Please Speak Up!

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Dates of Interest to Friends

Sunday, January 27: Quarterly Meeting at Old Haverford Meeting

Our January Fellowship Food Providers (with our appreciation):

Sun Jan 6 Sam McKinlay

Sun Jan 13 Patricia Davis

Sun Jan 20 Judy Antzis

Sun Jan 27 Fellowship Lunch Priscilla Fosnocht, Tracey DiGiacomo, Kathy McLaughlin

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Events -Information at www.pym.org. Sat., Jan 12 9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Junior Interim Meeting, Arch Street Meetinghouse, 4th & Arch, Philadelphia. Program for K-5thgraders with leadership opportunities for 6-8thgraders.

Fri, Jan 18 6:00p.m.-Sun, Jan. 20 12:00p.m. Middle School Friends Gathering: Winter Wonderland, Newtown Friends Meeting, Newtown PA We’ll do some deep thinking about the contrast between light and dark, happiness and sadness. What keeps us warm and inspired when life feels dark and cold? What can we learn about ourselves and each other through our shared experiences? As usual, we’ll also make plenty of time for fun. We’ll play foursquare, frazzlyram (a crazy field game), design our own board games, and of course: ice skating! Contact Matt Sanderson Middle School Friends Coordinator, 215-241-7171, [email protected]

Sat, Jan 26 8:00a.m.-2:00p.m. Opening the Way to Education - PYM Public Education Concerns Conference for Educators. The William Penn Charter School, Kurtz Center for the Performing Arts, 3000 West School House Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19144

Organized for Friends and educators with a concern for public education, this six-hour conference and workshop opportunity is offered free of charge through a grant from the Allen Hilles Fund. Keynote speech by Philadelphia Inquirer reporter and author Alfred Lubrano, two one-hour workshop sessions on topics such as effective teaching practices with limited resources, anti-bullying training, arts education, childhood trauma, advocacy, and service learning. Wed, Jan. 30 12:15p.m.-1:00p.m. PYM Brown-Bag Lunch Time Webinar: Care of the Caregiver On-line discussion for Friends who are caregivers, their families and Meeting members supporting them in their work.

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Radnor News

Radnor’s Winter Retreat Sat., Jan. 26 The time is just around the corner to discuss, meditate and consider “What Do Quakers Believe?” the questions originally presented by Arthur Larrabee at Philadelphia Yearly Meeting’s Summer Sessions. We will meet for a Winter Retreat on Saturday, January 26th under the guidance of Arthur Larabee to consider these meaningful questions. The Retreat will begin with coffee at 8:30, opening worship and discussion start at 9:00 AM with a break for lunch and end at 1: PM or a little later if needed. Lunch will be provided (hoagies from the Ithan Deli). Please sign up and bring something to add to the lunch if you wish. We look forward to an extension of our thoughts and questions started during the Forum of October 7th. It will be a warm and thoughtful delving into our own beliefs as they connect or differ from those of other Friends, a time to exercise our minds, hearts and spirits. Worship and Ministry

JANUARY 6TH DEADLINE FOR TUITION AID APPLICATIONS FOR FRIENDS SCHOOLS 2013-14

Tuition assistance is available from Radnor Meeting, Haverford Quarter and Philadelphia Yearly Meeting for the parents of Quaker children attending Friends schools. At least one parent or legal guardian must be a member of Radnor Meeting since September 1, 2012. To apply, parents must submit an application to the Clerk of Meeting by Jan. 6th, 2013.

The Meeting encourages you to apply if receiving financial support will help make a difference in your family’s ability to afford to send your child or children to a Friends school. The names of parents and students applying for tuition assistance are kept confidential. Grants for the coming academic year are expected to be $1,800 for each qualifying student; $2,200 for special needs children. You may obtain an application at:

http://friendseducationfund.org/guidelines/images/2013-14TAApp&Timeline.pdf

Copies are also available from Care and Counsel. Please give the signed application form to Patsy Dent, Clerk of Meeting no later than Sunday, January 6th. For further information, contact Kathleen Folwell or Steve Olshevski, Care and Counsel.

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Concern for Gun Violence At the December meeting of Peace & Social Concerns, the committee was joined by two members of a local organization called Heeding God’s Call, a faith-based movement to prevent gun violence. Bryan Miller and Mark Feifer spoke to the committee about the organization, which grew out of a group called “Ceasefire, New Jersey.” This group successfully pushed for a tightening of New Jersey gun laws; since 2009, customers can buy only one handgun every thirty days. Bryan noted that the change contributed to a relatively low rate of violence per capita in New Jersey, although gun-related violence is still a problem in large part due to looser legislation in neighboring states. Pennsylvania has been resistant to changing gun laws, and Philadelphia is one of the worst cities in the nation in terms of gun violence. Unlike New Jersey, Pennsylvania has not passed legislation limiting purchasers to one handgun a month. Pennsylvania also lacks legislation banning assault rifles and does not require guns to be registered (a gun can only be traced after it has been involved in a crime). In January 2009, a week-long conference on ending violence was held at Arch Street Meeting, attended by the Church of the Brethren, Mennonites and Quakers. The culminating act was a march on Colosimo’s Gun Center, urging the owner to adhere to the Retailer’s Code of Ethics. Among other things, this code would prevent gun shop owners from knowingly selling firearms to straw buyers. Twelve people were arrested after refusing to leave the gun shop. Members of the group went on to hold regular vigils in front of Colosimo’s, with varying numbers of people in attendance. This drew public attention to the store’s practices and ultimately led to action by federal authorities who forced Colosimo’s to close in September 2009. Bryan said that this led to fewer guns on the street for a while and saved some lives. Bryan noted that most gun dealers are honest and don’t want to sell to straw buyers but some gun dealers are willing to do so because this allows them to sell lots of guns at a time and make more of a profit. A number of individuals are “prohibited possessors” who cannot legally purchase guns because they are too young (under 21), have a criminal record or have mental health problems. These individuals often get straw buyers (typically women) to purchase guns for them. These straw buyers can purchase an unlimited number of guns after a background check that typically takes less than an hour. Since gun control has come to be regarded as a pejorative term, Heeding God’s Call prefers to describe its mission as preventing gun violence by controlling the flow of guns to the street. This contrasts with the typical American solution to gun violence, which suggests that we should arm ourselves more. Heeding God’s Call is not opposed to gun ownership but guns in the wrong hands. The NRA has pushed for legislation to prevent information about gun sales. It has effectively ensured that many of the gun laws passed do not protect us. For example, the

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Tiart Amendment attached riders to ATF appropriations stipulating that tax dollars cannot be used to give information on gun traces except in individual cases of crime. This prevents aggregate data from getting out. Nonetheless, it appears that 70% of gun-related violence stems from personal arguments; violence is more likely when someone is armed. 35-45% of Americans own guns. Only a small portion of gun-related violence is related to domestic violence; similarly, only a small portion is related to drugs. Heeding God’s Call is a 501c organization that relies on grassroots engagement. It is looking for people of faith to be part of the process and get involved in sustained action. The group is now working at a gun shop in Torresdale, where rallies are held twice a month (which last approximately one hour). It also witnesses at the site of murders once a month (approximately 30 minutes). Heeding God’s Call is starting a new chapter located in “Metro West.” This chapter is holding rallies at a gun shop near Norristown, where the gun involved in the recent murder of the Plymouth Township police officer was apparently sold. Bryan Miller and Mark Feifer will be our forum speakers on Sunday, February 24. More information about Heeding God’s Call, including a calendar of events, is available on the website: http://www.heedinggodscall.org/

Christmas Eve Carol Sing - December 24

Special thanks to Radnor members and their families who shared their musical talents with the Meeting at our Candlelight Christmas Eve Carol Sing: cellists Kristie McLaughlin and Anne Fosnocht, violinists Natalie McLaughlin and Nancy Kauffman, John Lord on the keyboard and Joanne Kettelle, who sang “O Come, O Come Emmanuel.” The round we sing every year, Dona Nobis Pacem, was led Robert Roche (Haverford MM), Betsy and Caleb Balderston. One seasoned member commented that this was the best we ever sounded! This year, as Friends walked out of the meetinghouse at 6 p.m., snow started falling as if on cue.

Corrections to the Directory

David Balderston, 3625 Pisa Drive, Apt. 13, Orlando FL 32810; cell 610-283-0935 Francis Diament, 860 Harmonyville Rd, Pottstown, PA 9465-0935 Julia Nase, 300 N. Wayne Avenue, Apt. 5, Wayne, PA 19087-3239. Please inform our Meeting Secretary, Andrea Nuneviller, of changes to your address, phone number or email. Contact her at [email protected] or leave a note for her in the mail holder on the door at Meeting.

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Radnor Voices

I don't know how much company I have having been primarily drawn to Friends Meeting through music. I find the usual modern church music bland and off-putting so the absence of music during Meeting really attracted me.

I have a passion for a peculiar branch of early American a capella hymn singing in shape notes which brought me in a round-about way to Radnor Meeting. A few years ago a visiting Quaker friend stayed with me one weekend to attend a singing. After visiting Radnor Meeting he urged me to check it out. I took the plunge and have happily attended Meeting for Worship ever since. Decades ago I started singing shape notes hymns which are said to have originated in Philadelphia in the late 1700’s. The most popular of these books is the Sacred Harp, first published in 1844. In the 1970's there was a revival of interest in shape notes in the academic and folk music community. Since then the advent of the Internet has made it much easier for shape note singers to connect with and learn from the last bastion of traditional singing in rural southern churches where the tradition was beginning to die off.

The music we sing is written in dispersed harmony (the opposite of the more familiar “close harmony”), often in minor keys, and very unlike most church music in modern hymnals. Sacred Harp has a much more visceral sound. The songs are American but now sound to our ears primitive and haunting. It’s been described as the musical equivalent of blackstrap molasses. Others think it resembles Klingon Opera.

I find similarities in Baltic harmony, African pulse, and even echoes of American Indian chants in it. The poetry speaks to basic questions involving life and death, forgiveness and gratitude, grace and its absence, hope, faith and love. There is also a sprinkling of songs harkening to the Enlightenment, nature and history. The sound is loud, full-throated and often discordant… it's not easy listening but it's wonderful to sing. Most weekends I'm not at Radnor I'm off singing with a multi-generational, income-diverse and non-sectarian community of shape note singers. We sing for the pure pleasure of singing with one another. Everyone is welcome to these singings, with or without musical gift. Performance is not the object, in fact this musical tradition actively discourages it. We singers arrange ourselves in an inward facing square and sing looking at each other. Everyone, including non-singers, is invited to join us in the square, but anyone outside the square only sees our back and is unable to appreciate the fully quadraphonic experience. The music is directed inwards as we sing with and for each other. As it turns out there are many shape note singing Quakers in Pennsylvania, and many of our favorite venues to sing in are meeting houses which have unusually fine acoustics.

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David Wright, in his essay on the intersection of Sacred Harp and Quakerism published last year, puts it eloquently: ".... singers feel the musical or poetical content of a song on a personal level, while trying to help all others present get the best and fullest experience of each song, and sharing each other’s joy in collaborative music-making and fellowship. In an experience of being made tender in corporate worship, God’s love is felt on an individual level, in response to a deep personal need, yet seems to be expressed or channeled through one’s fellow worshippers." (quoted with permission from his wonderful article at www.westernfriend.org/unprogrammedsinging) There will be a large singing at Merion Hall, which is behind St Philomena RC Church, 41 East Baltimore Ave in Lansdowne on the weekend of January 26 (10AM to 3:30PM) and 27 (9:30AM to 3PM). It's free and you’re welcome to come and go for as little or as long as you like. I hope to see some my Radnor Friends there. If you can’t find me in the scrum of bellowing singers ask someone to help track me down to say hello. Singers will be travelling from all over the country and beyond, and for you it's so close! For more information go to: www.pennsylvaniasacredharp.com.

About the author:

Other than singing and heading up Radnor’s Interfaith Hospitality Network Committee, Ina is trying to figure out what to do with herself now that her youngest, Hannah (who’s sometimes mentioned in connection to her work in the Middle East at Ultimate Peace), has just started college at U Michigan. Twin sons, Daniel and Gilead, are juniors at Penn State and Brandeis. Her other dependent is Pogo, a hound dog not to be trusted when it comes to unattended food.

Radnor Voices features the spiritual voices of Friends at Radnor Meeting. We hope this will provide a forum for sharing the years of accumulated wisdom present in our community. Each month an individual contributor will reflect on their spiritual life as a Friend, giving voice to the experiences and insights they have gathered in their own personal journey. Friends who wish to share in this way are invited to contact Caroline Cherry of Worship and Ministry at [email protected] or by phone at 610 687-7547. Deadline each month for contributions is the second Sunday of that month. Recommended length is from two paragraphs to one and one-half pages, but exceptions can be made.

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News of Friends Martha Payne, now living in Gainesville, FL sends “Greetings to all!” Barbara Wille sent this “An Update on the Willes”: “After graduating from Northwestern, David spent a Fulbright year in Cairo where he experienced the Arab Spring first-hand. He has returned to Washington and is living in Georgetown and working for the Corporate Executive Board. Nick is a junior in high school, playing variety wresting and also rugby. He is a cellist in the Symphany Orchestra and volunteers with Barbara doing trail maintenance in the area. Conor is working for our local Giant as a bagger, walking out and enjoying Special Olympics sports. John is still working for the World Bank, consulting mostly in Africa. Barbara is serving as an operations and fundraising consultant for two organizations, Many Voices (www.manyvoices.org) where we’re working for justice for the LGBTQ community and for LearnLead, which serves at-risk early childhood students. We send fond wishes for a wonderful new year to everyone!”

Wilma (Billie) Brey Gilfillan writes from Winston-Salem, NC: “My best to all Meeting members far and near. My daughter, Antionette, a childhood meeting member, has recovered from her second colon cancer surgery. My husband, Robert, now lives in a skilled nursing home 12 miles away from me with stage 7 Alzheimers. The monthly Meeting Newsletter gives me the courage to go on, but I do wish I lived in or near Radnor. Joys of the Season! Peace.” Rose Miller writes from Kendal at Hanover, NH: “We have had very interesting discussions on the Peter Bien Pendle Hill pamphlet “The Mystery of Quaker Light” and his “Kendal and Beyond.” He lives here and he led a recent evening program. He is in Philadelphia sometimes and might be able to meet with you; one must be prepared for a scholarly discussion!! As I jokingly say, my infrastructure is falling apart. But I am grateful to have only that, and to have Radnor and my family and friends. Love to all!”

Tess Parrish writes from Falmouth, ME: “My best news is that my grandson Sam Carter and his wife Paige have moved permanently to Philadelphia and are now visiting meetings in the Main Line area. Sam is a law student at Villanova. For the rest, my twin great granddaughters have just celebrated their first birthday. The rest of the family gathered in July to feast my eldest daughter’s 60th birthday—at least 30 or more were there, a happy time for all.”

Martha & Mac McMakin write: “The 6 years we have been here in Engle, CO have zipped by. We have enjoyed being near 2 of our 3 children and seeing some grandchildren as they breeze through. We don’t travel as we used to but enjoy the lovely scenery here. We have happy memories of Radnor Meeting and miss the warm greetings, wonderful messages and interesting forums. We send our sincere greetings.”

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Pictures from the December 16 Children’s Christmas Program:

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Pictures from the December 16 Children’s Christmas Program:

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Reports Founders Trust Committee

Summary Report 1994-December 31, 2012

At its November 13, 1994 Meeting for Business, Radnor members and attenders authorized the Finance Committee to solicit funds for a five-year Capital Campaign entitled “The Radnor Meeting Founders Trust.” Thanks to the generosity and commitment of the Radnor community, highlighted as in any capital campaign by several large gifts, we reached our goal of $500,000 by the end of December 31, 1998, a year ahead of schedule. Business Meeting on September 12, 1999 then approved a Trust agreement and approved six Trustees with staggered terms of two to six years to oversee the trust in its primary mission of helping Radnor Meeting financially with the care of buildings and grounds. Current Trustees as of January 1, 2013: Jerilynn Radcliffe (Clerk), Betsy Balderston, Caroline Cherry, Julia Hanson, Craig Long, Paul Smith.

Trust Funds are primarily administered by Friends Fiduciary Corporation, which calculates unit values quarterly and distributes income (a mix of interest and principal) semi-annually on a rolling three-year average of unit values. As of 9/30/12, the Trust had 18,470 units with each unit valued at $41.47, or a total market value of $765,968. By comparison, as of 9/30/05 the Trust had 13,687 units with each unit valued at $45.93, or a total market value of $628,676, while as of 9/30/10 there were 16,192 units valued at $39.18 with a market value of $634,513.

The total amount of Trust Funds distributed to Meeting as of 9/30/12 is $160,478. These moneys have gone for work connected with completion of the Annex, for buildings and grounds, and for a Reserve fund. Trustees have also authorized future expenditures of up to $10,000 each fiscal year for capital expenses related to buildings and grounds; the Treasurer may request Board approval for moneys beyond this amount.

Because of the generally poor financial markets in recent years, Trustees have felt it advisable to reinvest income in order to maintain the Trust’s balance. Had these funds not been reinvested the value of the Trust would be substantially less. That said, none of the Trustees regards the Trust as an account whose growth is an end in itself. It is another Meeting resource in addition to annual contributions from members and attenders (our primary source of funds), the Steere Memorial Fund, Friends Testimonies Fund, our operating reserve, and Meeting surplus funds. Thanks to these resources and the administrative abilities of previous Meeting Treasurers and Bart Harrison, our current Treasurer, we are in good financial shape.

Charlie Cherry, Clerk (1994-2012)

The Founders Trust Committee

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Radnor Monthly Meeting Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business

12/9/2012

The meeting opened with silent worship and was clerked by Clerk Patsy Dent. Approval of Minutes The minutes from the Business Meeting of 11th month 2012 were approved. Announcements of Upcoming Events Patsy pointed out the list of upcoming events that was posted. More details can be found in the Radnor MM newsletter. Next Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business will be 01/13/2013. Update from Outreach and Fellowship Andrea Nuneviller gave an update on the meeting sign. There are two proposed versions which were described in the December newsletter. The committee has determined that since there are already two signs along Conestoga Road, a zoning variance would be required to have an additional one. They decided to refurbish one on Conestoga Road and to add one on Sproul Road. The two versions proposed are for the Sproul Road sign. The proposal is for messages to be on both sides of the sign to be visible from both directions. The committee is seeking feedback prior to bringing the matter to Business Meeting for approval. Once approved there, the proposal needs to go to Radnor Township’s Design Board. Please send feedback for the committee to [email protected] or by putting a note in the pocket for Outreach/Fellowship on the meeting house basement door. Update from Nominating Committee Kathleen Folwell provided a correction regarding the Founders Trust trustees. Jerilynn Radcliffe and Julia Hanson are continuing to serve out their terms which are until June 2017 for Jerilynn and until June 2013 for Julia. Kathleen clarified that this is based on the dates of appointment and the duration of terms specified for the Founders Trust. Update from Care and Counsel Kathleen Folwell reported that the deadline for tuition grant applications for the 2013-2014 school year is Jan 6, 2013. Anyone who has been a member of Radnor Meeting as of September 2012 and who has children may apply. The combined total of grants from Radnor Meeting, Haverford Quarter and Friends Education Fund is $1800 per student; applications can be made online at the PYM website. Since the holidays can be stressful, the committee is asking that if you know of anyone who may need some support, please let the committee know. Jessica Krick and Tom Stanton were married under the care of Radnor Meeting on 10/26/2012 at Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. Priscilla Fosnocht, John Fosnocht and Joanne Kettelle served as overseers.

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Sara Miller passed away on 12/5/2012 and a graveside ceremony was held yesterday. Update from Worship and Ministry Barbara Day announced, on behalf of Julia Hanson, that the committee intends to run a Quakerism 101 program led by Joan Broadfield in spring. The program is recommended for those newer to Quakerism as well as longtime members. The committee is requesting that those speaking during Meeting for Worship do so at a higher volume to enable others to hear clearly. A request is being sent to the Property Committee for help with the sound system in the meeting house. Report of FCNL Annual Meeting Burt Dallas reported on his experience of the FCNL annual meeting held in November. It was a lobbying effort as well as a meeting. Meetings were held with government legislators because there will be a new Congress and FCNL reinforced the need for more equity in the tax structure. Radnor Meeting will be sending a minute to FCNL regarding our priorities. The Peace and Social Concerns Committee is working on the minute and they welcome input. Request for Decision from Worship and Ministry Patsy Dent conveyed the request to have Meeting for Worship in the First Day School building on 12/16/2012 to allow the children to practice for the Christmas Pageant in the meeting room. Last year it was approved by Worship and Ministry as well as at Business Meeting. This was approved for 12/16/2012 and the matter is to be referred back to Worship and Ministry for their determination as to whether this can be done going forward if the Religious Education Committee requests it, rather than having to bring it to Business Meeting each time. Concerns of Friends Tom Hartmann commented that mold tests kits are available at Home Depot for about $10 and also that the company that Friends Center used has tests that can be done on tape and sent in for analysis with the cost for three being about $25. The meeting closed with silent worship.

Respectfully submitted, Isobel Thompson Recording Clerk

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Radnor

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Meeting Religious Society of Friends

P.O. Box 8196

Radnor, PA 19087