by Liz Nicholson | Jan 24, 2017 | News, QVS Portland
A Healthy Climate for All Damon Motz-Storey Take a deep breath. Are you sitting down right now? Standing? Lying on a couch or in bed? Take another breath. You are connected to the earth in some way. Feel your body touching something solid, tethered to the ground, the...
by Liz Nicholson | Jan 11, 2017 | Quaker Service Testimonies
Nancy Wales Foster was born in 1914 and grew up in southwestern Ohio, on the farm where her Quaker ancestors had settled in 1810. After graduating from Swarthmore College, she returned to Ohio and began teaching in 1934. She spent several summers as an AFSC staff...
by Liz Nicholson | Jan 10, 2017 | Event, News, QVS Philadelphia
This Saturday, January 14th, students from Ursinus College who are participants in the Bonner Leaders program will visit with QVS Fellow Krista Snyder, and staff members Oskar Castro and Ross Hennesy, to hear about the history of Quakers in Germantown in the...
by Liz Nicholson | Jan 9, 2017 | Quaker Service Testimonies, QVS Atlanta
This gentle Quaker couple, Nan and Britt Pendergrast, helped create and sustain the News/Views publications which began in April, 1980. A group from Atlanta Friends Meeting, led by Dwight Ferguson and Nan Pendergrast, selected articles on peace, social justice and...
by Liz Nicholson | Jan 9, 2017 | Quaker Service Testimonies, QVS Atlanta
Courtney and Elizabeth Siceloff met in Sweden on a Quaker sponsored tour of Scandinavian cooperatives in 1949 and then continued to live their lives together in service. Their first service began in 1950 at the newly formed Penn Center on St. Helena Island in South...