Briefer Notices

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Briefer Notices Barbara Curtis The annual spring meeting ofthe Friends Historical Associationtook place on the weekend of May 1 and 2 in Easton, Maryland. It was a perfect spring setting for a gathering of members, friends and hosts under the care of Third Haven Friends Meeting. Local Friends had done an outstandingjob with necessary arrangements which set a fine tone for the proceedings. For many ofthe visitors it was a two-day event since local Quakers had kindly offered to provide hospitality to those wishing to spend Saturday afternoon touring historic homes and previous places ofQuaker worship along the Tred Avon River. Following a pleasant meal in the newer meeting house on the grounds served by local Friends, the group reassembled to hear a talk, illustrated by slides of the actual work of restoration, ofthe adjacent Third Haven Friends Meeting. Orlando Ridout, restoration architect, discussed the extensive repairs and reconstruction required by the building, the oldest house ofworship still in use by its members in the state of Maryland. Sunday opened with a meeting for worship using the newly restored meeting house and filling it with some 75 more attenders. After lunch there were tours ofthe meeting house and grounds and an excursion to the Talbot County Historical Society before the entire group reassembled at 2:00 p.m. for the address by Gretchen Hall ofthe Friends Committee on National Legislation. Her talk was historically oriented by the device oftaking each ofthe five decades ofthe existence ofFCNL, outlining objectives and accomplishments, and then asking members ofthe audience for their personal memories that might illuminate the work of the organization. Following this address there were tours of the restored meeting house. The annual spring meeting adjourned by 3:30 p.m. There were many expressions of gratitude for the warm hospitality of Easton Friends. The Quaker Collection ofHaverford College announces the five recipients ofits 1993 research Gest Fellowships. The fellowships program began in 1 992 to support research on a topic in the field of Comparative Religion, using Quaker Collection materials. The Gest Fellows are: Sarah B. Gant, Founder, Micah Policy Consulting, The Quaker Business Ethic and an American Way ofLife; Li Li, Ph.D. candidate in History, University of North Carolina, The Expression ofSelf-identity: American Missionary Response to the May 30th Movement; Jacquelyn Miller, Ph.D. candidate in American History, Rutgers University, The Body Politic: Disease, Political Culture and Religion in the Age of the American Revolution; Merril D. Smith, Ph.D., author ofBreaking the Bonds, Mothers andDaughters: The Transmission ofCulture in Early America; Karen A. Wulf, Ph.D. candidate in History, Johns Hopkins University, A Marginal Independence: Unmarried Women in Colonial Philadelphia. The application deadline for 1994 fellowships is February 1, 1994. These fellowships provide $1200 for one month of research between June 1, 1994 and January 31, 1995. Contact: Emma Jones Lapsansky, Curator, Quaker Collection, Haverford College, Haverford, PA 19041. ...