SUMMER 2004Phil Anthony
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oesn’t look much like the Salem Quarter News you’ve come to expect, does it? What happened?
Well, there were difficulties connecting with our printer when it was time to turn the sheets of paper I produce into the newsletter you’ve learned to love, all folded and stapled and ready to mail. The deadline for getting it to the printer came—and went. We began to look frantically around to figure out what to do.
The easiest thing, of course, would have been to skip an issue. We could photocopy the minutes of our March Quarterly Meeting for distribution at Red Bank in June, and copies of the proposed budget (approved in principle, subject to tweaking) could have been sent to the monthly meetings for their consideration. After some thought, it was decided the minutes and proposed budget were important enough to warrant more than that.
There was also the question of expense, however, We learned that eight sheets of paper—basically, what you have in your hand right now—copied at one of the major office service companies would have cost 50 per cent more than our normal 20-page Salem Quarter News. Clearly that was unacceptable.
Then an employee of a Catholic college in northwestern Philadelphia—my wife—came to the rescue. Chestnut Hill College offers its staff the use of its copying equipment at cost. Thanks to Chestnut Hill College, we even have the list of Quarter officers and committees for you on time!
For the future, we’ve been in touch with the printer, and the difficulties we had have been worked out. For the Fall Salem Quarter News, we can expect our usual format.
When you receive Salem Quarter News, you know Quarterly Meeting is near. See the last two pages of this issue for details of our program at the Red Bank Battlefield, National Park, N.J., on Sunday, 13 June. Kathryn Dodson of Mullica Hill MM is curator of the James and Ann Whitall House there. She’ll tell us how her professional encounter with that 18th-century Quaker family and its descendents has enriched her life as a Friend.
It’ll be fun for the kids, too. Woodbury MM will put on a children’s program of noncompetitive games in the playground near the pavilion. Please come join us.
Salem Quarterly Meeting at Red Bank Battlefield
JUNE QUARTERLY MEETING
Red Bank Battlefield
Riverside Pavilion
Sunday, 13 June 20042:00 pm Tour of the James and Ann Whitall House 3:00 pm Program: Kathryn Dodson — A Spiritual Journey With the James and Ann Whitall House 4:00 pm Meeting for worship for business 6:00 pm Brown-bag dinner (bring your own beverage and dessert) 7:00 pm Worship Full children’s program, 3:00-6:00
provided by Woodbury MMKathryn Dodson of Mullica Hill MM is curator of the James and Ann Whitall House at Red Bank Battlefield in National Park, N.J. This has been a spiritual journey for Kathryn: Her faith has grown and flourished in caring for the home of this 18th-century Quaker family. Now she’ll tell us about what she’s found along the way. For those who wish, there’ll also be a tour of the house before her talk.
Program, business meeting, dinner, and worship will take place in the riverside pavilion. Woodbury MM will provide a full children’s program of noncompetitive games during the talk and business meeting.
Directions
The Red Bank Battlefield is located at 100 Hessian Avenue, National Park, N.J. Thanks to Gloucester County Parks and Recreation for the following directions:
From Philadelphia and points north:
- Take the North-South Freeway (Route 42) to I-295 South.
- At Exit 23 (National Park), turn right onto Hessian Avenue (County Route 642).
- In approximately 2 miles, Hessian Avenue dead-ends into the Red Bank Battlefield.
From points south:
- Take I-295 North to Exit 21 (Woodbury).
- Make a left onto Delaware Street (County Route 640).
- Delaware Street dead-ends at the stop sign at Grove Road (County Route 643). Make a right turn.
- The first traffic light is Hessian Avenue (County Route 642). Make a left turn.
- Hessian Avenue dead-ends into the Red Bank Battlefield.
From points east:
- Take NJ 322 West into Glassboro.
- Make a right turn onto Delsea Drive (NJ 47).
- At the Five Points intersection, take the jughandle and continue on NJ 47.
- Take NJ 47 into Deptford. At the intersection of Cooper Street (County Route 640), make a left turn.
- Follow Cooper Street through Woodbury, past the county court house. Cooper Street. becomes Delaware Street but continues to be County Route 640.
- Follow Delaware Street until it dead-ends at Grove Road (County Route 643). At stop sign, turn right.
- At the first traffic light, turn left onto Hessian Avenue (County Route 642).
- Hessian Avenue dead-ends into the Red Bank Battlefield.
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