T   .@Times-  2 Yw v2 wG The Background of the Quaker Inner City School Endowment Fund (QICSEF)  !   $  "   %%  $! 2   2 w 2 wT If youd like to know how QICSEF came into being, read on: Imogene and Brad Angell    # $ $! %      %  ! $ 2 ?wW were trustees of Friends School in Detroit for a combined 18 years. During its almost $        %    &   $    % 2 xw  four decade 2 xaN s, FSID has constantly teetered on the edge of closure. Several times, after  $             &  2 wY the board had said the school had to close, the parents rallied, drove around the school                    y2 wI honking horns, then settled into bake sales, car washes and a myriad fundf           $  &  2 3 -2 D raising   2 %w activit   2 %X ies! Theres nothing else like it for our children, they said. Miracles began. The                 -     @Times--2 ^w Detroit $  -2 ^  Free Presss -y2 ^I lead editorial on April 7, 1987, was titled: Best Friends: This jewel f      #   $   !     % |2 wK of a school would be shame to lose. In 1989, FSID received a 1.2 million e   $   &      $      &  2 \ dollar   a2 w9 bequest. A few years later, a foundation made a matching # $    & &  2  -;2   funds grant. Little by little,         2 wW the school moved forward yet always financially unstable. Thus, when the Angells were   %$   $      $ $  $ w2 DwH retiring, they & Bob Glass, another FSID trustee, looked for a way to he   & ! %   $     $  #2 D lp schools like    X2 }w3 FSID because the sad truth is that few if any inner $       $    2 }a -;2 }r  city schools have the endowment      %% 2 wW needed to sustain them. QICSEF is the result of the creative thinking of Imogene and     % $!             % Y2 w4 Brad Angell and Bob Glass. The way indeed opened. ! $  ! %   $   2   2 *w "2 cw The story of ho  p2 cC w Friends School in Detroit was founded is just as inspiring. The t$      $  $         -2 wQ following is an extract from an article by Imogene B. Angell in the October 1991 e %     %     %! #    $  -2  Friends  -2 w  Journal:  -z2 0J When a suburban independent school refused to admit an African American /       &   $ $&  %2 w student because o  w2 H f her race, civic leaders in Detroit were gravely concerned. (The girl        $  $       2 IwU was the daughter of Wade McCree, then judge of a U.S. district court in Michigan and d$   . ,!     $       -   2 wW later solicitor general of the United States under President Carter.) Knowing Quakers        $      !  #%  $2 w  have a stron  2 iM g involvement in solid education and a long history of recognizing the worth   &               $ 2 wX of each individual regardless of race, the Detroit civic leaders asked the newly formed           $       %& 2 /wV Green Pastures Quarterly Meeting to found a Quaker school. A small group of sponsors $  $  ,     $  # %    2 hw pooled 2 hQ d enough money to get it started. The school began with 65 students in grades 1 s %        %       2 h: -2 hK 5  2 wV in a storefront. Today, FSID has its own building on 4 acres in downtown Detroit.    $   $      &   $$ $  2 7  2 w "Systemp8-