Present: Nancy Brantingham, Judy Brown, Lorena Bruff, Gayle
Henry,
Kathryn Keve, Mary Jacobs, Bob Major, Barb Morrison, Lori Raschke,
Millie
Royce, Ed Sheridan, Diana Sheridan, Leyla Welkin, Barbara Wolf,
Michael
Moore, Clerk
The Meeting opened with silence and the reading of a query: Do
we
recognize that the search for unity may require us to accept with
good
grace a decision of the Meeting with which we are not entirely in
agreement?
The Clerk introduced the agenda for this Meeting and the
suggested items
for the June Meeting as well. The agenda for this Meeting included
deciding whether there would be a summer Meeting for Business, a
consideration of a Craft Fair, a consideration of the Peace
Brochure, a
proposal of Leyla Welkin's, the Financial Report, and a reminder
about
the Meeting with Vanessa Julye this coming Wednesday, May 19.
For the June Meeting the agenda
items include What to do about the library, the
need for an Administrative Committee, the need for a Facilities
Committee, Nominations and Quaker Process, NYPM Seasoning,
consideration
of an effort being made locally to start a counseling service
concerning
Draft and Conscientious Objector status.
The Minutes of the April 18 meeting were approved as
presented.
Financial Report: Nancy Brantingham and Barb Morrison
presented the
financial report. Barb stated that the key to their report was that
our
Meeting's contributions are not meeting our budgeted and specially
suggested needs. Meeting was reminded that next month we will speak
about
the need for an Administrative Committee and that such a committee
if
appointed could have as one of it's first tasks a proposal for how
we
might raise the money we budget.
There was also discussion of an
annual pledge to the meeting.
It was also suggested that everyone be given a
financial report at the rise of Meeting on the Sunday's of business
meeting so they are aware of the needs. It was also suggested that
we did
not want to put pressure on individuals to help raise funds and that
often in Meetings when members and attenders know the needs they
simply
come through voluntarily with their gifts. It was suggested that the
hexagonal table with the collection box and the bulletin board be
put
near the door instead of at the end of the room opposite the door.
Leyla Welkin asked that the Clerk of the Meeting write a letter of
recommendation and approval for her as she accepts the invitation of
the
Interfaith Council of Washington to join their board. Meeting
approved
such a letter that the Clerk would write.
Betty Petris proposed on the basis of a lecture Leyla Welkin gave in
Betty's college classroom that Agate Passage Meeting sponsor an
evening
in which Leyla would speak on "Middle Eastern Cultures:
Values, Meanings
and Motivations behind Current Events." The date was set:
Tuesday, June
22 at 7:30.p.m. at Bainbridge Public Library.
Considerations as to whether we would sponsor a Craft Fair
were postponed
until the June Meeting.
The Peace Testimony: It was decided that a decision as to
what we should
publish as our Agate Passage Friends testimony on Peace requires
that we
have a threshing session in which we think together about what
should be
included in it. That statement then could be brought to Meeting for
business for final approval. A June 4 date was set to thresh out the
statement. hopefully, at the Community Center at the Islander Mobile
Home
Park. on Bainbridge at 6:00. Michael Moore was asked to clerk that
threshing
session because in the words of one member "he has such a
wonderful
capacity for keeping his mouth shut."
Meeting closed at 1:10 p.m. with silence.
Judy Brown, Recorder |