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Service to
Young Friends
Last summer we were short on lifeguards for
the YF summer gathering at Camp Onas. As you look
forward to spring and summer maybe you could consider
becoming a lifeguard! Check with your school or
the local Red Cross or Scouting organization to find |
out when
and where there will be a course. Remember you
need both a lifeguard certification (good for 3 years)
and a CPR certification that must be renewed every year.
Lifeguards receive a $100
credit toward the cost of the Onas Gathering. |
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2008 Design Science / Global
Solutions Lab
June 16–23, 2008
Chestnut Hill College, Phila,
PA,
and United Nations, NY |
—Where design changes the world—
Where your vision, values, critical thinking, and creative
imagination
combine with a global, whole systems perspective
and a problem solving and strategic planning methodology
that leads to informed, effective action for changing the
world.
—Where emergency leads to emergence—
Where YOU make the difference. Get
More Information
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ABC News -
Good Morning America
The Last Lecture:
Professor Randy Pausch's inspiring last lecture at Carnegie
Mellon about living life to the fullest.
Oct. 3, 2007 "And the other
Jim Graham story I have is there was one [football] practice
where he just rode me all practice. You're doing this wrong,
you're doing this wrong, go back and do it again, you owe
me, you're doing push-ups after practice. And when it was
all over, one of the other assistant coaches came over and
said, yeah, Coach Graham rode you pretty hard, didn't he?
I said, yeah. He said, that's a good thing. He said, when
you're screwing up and nobody's saying anything to you anymore,
that means they gave up. And that's a lesson that stuck with
me my whole life. Is that when you see yourself doing something
badly and nobody's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a
very bad place to be. Your critics are your ones telling you
they still love you and care. "
Watch the Last Lecture This is
in four parts. Go to the bottom of the page to where
is says WATCH
THE LAST LECTURE. Click on 1 through 4.
Read
the Last Lecture
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Hi everyone
This just in from my mother in
Australia - I guess it figures that it would involve sheep!!
Enjoy! -Elizabeth Walmsley
The automobile driving
manual says the average driver's reaction time is: .75 seconds.......
or 1 car length for every 10 mph...... Test your average
reaction time. Be
very careful this can be addictive. Click on the link below
and good luck.
Reaction
Test
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Vote Early and Often!
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drawing all over with her paint markers at Christmas Gathering?
Now it’s finished and you’re invited to view
it! Click here to view the lions
and vote: http://db1.de.psu.edu/lionvote/
Penn State University's Brandywine Campus is
celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. Please join
us in the celebration by viewing the wonderful work
of local artists, school children, and members of the
Brandywine community and then vote for your favorite
lion design. The top 40 vote getters will be auctioned
off at a gala event to raise money for PSU scholarships.
The remaining lions will become part of the PSU permanent
collection or available to the general community and
local businesses for purchase (proceeds also benefit
PSU scholarships).
Zan’s sixth grade Art students at Valley
Forge Middle School also painted nine of the other lions!
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Haley Jennifer Yarmark 4/15/1990
- 5/11/2007
Photo by Holly Olson -
Bucks Quarter Coordinator
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Photo by Cookie Caldwell
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The Education Standing Committee of Philadelphia
Yearly Meeting, at its meeting on June 23, approved the re-naming
of the Sergei Thomas Memorial Fund to the "Sergei
Thomas and Haley Yarmark Memorial Fund."
As of December 18th, $3729.00
dollars have been donated in Haley's memory. |
"Before You Enlist!"
is a 15-minute film that provides "the real deal on joining
the military" as told by veterans from Iraq to Vietnam,
their family members and other young people who've dealt with
recruiters. Produced by Telequest of Princeton NJ with support
from the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Veterans
For Peace, the Coalition for Peace Action, the Puffin Foundation
and others, it is ready for viewing (and download) via
You can watch the video at BeforeYouEnlist.org...
or at YouTube
This will require a high speed connection. It will take forever
to load on a Dial up connection. |
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you concerned about a
potential Military draft?
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Youth
and Selective Service registration
Whether or not you think you
might be conscientiously opposed to war, if you
are in middle or high school, consider talking to
a member of your Meeting, the Quakerism teacher
at your Friends school, or call the Philadelphia
Yearly Meeting office at (800) 220-0796 to speak
to Joan Broadfield (ext. 7240).
Whether clearness or counseling is needed, there
are websites which contain updated information about
registration and the draft: Peace
& Concerns
PYM
Peace and Witness portal
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be on the Young Friends E-mail network?
E-mail cookiec@pym.org
and say you want on. You will receive announcements of Coffeehouses,
Quarterly Meeting events, service opportunities, Young Friends
Working Group meeting agendas and other neat stuff! A
reminder: If you change your address to some newer cooler
address we won't know it and you won't hear from us unless you
tell us! |
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Adult E-mail listserv for those
over 18.
Philadelphia Young Adult Friends (PYAF) is a group
of young adult Quakers (roughly 18-32) and Quaker sympathizers
meet together and talk about their experiences and needs as
young adults.
PYAF seeks to share life experiences and attitudes,
and come together as an energetic, supportive community of seekers.
They have a foundation in Quaker principles, ethics, and practices.
The group meets every other Thursday and Sunday evenings
for a potluck meal, fellowship and Meeting for Worship. Different
people take turns hosting the gathering. PYAF gatherings are
generally in the Philadelphia, with occasional events in the
suburbs.
Check out their Yahoo Group list serve at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pyaf/
Email pyaf-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
to join the listserv and learn where our next event is. Got
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is space in any Young Friends gathering unless an announcement
that the event is closed has been posted here on the Young
Friends web site. |
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Annual Sessions of Philadelphia Yearly
Meeting
Wednesday, July 30 to Sunday, August 3,
2008
at DeSales University, Center Valley, PA
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for Registration information on the web May 10th |
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Young
Friends
Summer
Gathering
August,
17-23,
2008
Information
coming by June. |
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2008 FGC Gathering of Friends
Johnstown, PA, June 28 - July 5
Join us for a week-long Quaker experience unlike
any other! Click
here for more information |
This
event is now up on the FGC website. Online
and mail-in registration begins March 27,
2008. Register fast if you plan to attend. In
the last few years the gathering registration closed
very early when the spaces were filled. |
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Young Friends Working
Group
This is where we get together to stuff our faces
with chocolate chocolate chip soda bread and plan
future events. You're invited!
The
Next Meeting
Sunday,
April 6, 2008
Onas Gathering
Planning
at Downingtown
Meeting
Get
MapQuest directions to Downingtown Friends Meeting
(aka Uwchlan Meeting)
The small turn out for the YFWG
meeting where we plan events has made it hard
to do a good job with planning. We are going
to try a new way to plan events. We are
going to move the April meeting to Downingtown
(Uwchlan) Meeting where there are 15 -20 YFs who
could help with the planning.
- Chocolate-Chip Soda Bread, of course.
- Planning for Onas Gathering August
17-23, 2008
- How to do long range gathering planning (RYM,
Onas, Peace Fair, Halloween, November, Christmas????)
The
Ancien Régime
until May 2, 2008
Tori Bak Baggot, YF Youth Clerk.
Alice Gitchell, YF Adult Clerk.
Eli Collins, YF Recording Clerk
The
New Régime beginning
May 2, 2008
Everett Defieux, New YF Youth Clerk
Eric Frysinger, YF Recording Clerk
Zan Lombardo, YF Adult Clerk (as of Sept 2008)
Archive
of Minutes from Young Friends Working Group Meetings
Young Friends
Guidelines and Smoking Policy |
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Financial Aid for
College
Dear Young Friends, parents and colleagues:
Following up on the October 21st, 2006 Quaker College Fair,
here are 4 excellent resources, for those who were not able
to attend (and also for those who were!).
Warm regards,
Tom Hoopes
Director of Education
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
1) Text
of Mark Myers' keynote talk, which characterizes Quaker
colleges as a special subset of liberal arts colleges. A very
helpful read for any student or parent in the midst of the decision-making
process about college... This is a pdf document.
2) Financial Aid
calculator, which allows families to do a "reality-check"
about how much they should expect to pay, based on standard
financial aid formulas. NOTE: For Quaker
colleges and other private colleges, click on "Expected
Family Contribution (EFC)" (halfway down the page, under
"Needs Analysis"), and then choose "Institutional
Methodology," not "Federal Methodology."
For public universities and colleges choose
"Federal Methodology".
3) "Twenty
Things You Need to Know About Financing College"
-- a very helpful, at-a-glance document from the College Board.
This is a pdf document.
4) National Public Radio recently aired a story, Signs
That College Tuition Hikes May Ease a Bit by Larry Abramson,
about the relationship between Financial Aid and Tuition. The
following quotations jumped out at me:
"The public focus on the sticker price of going
to college gives a misleading picture. The average student actually
pays less than half the published tuition."
"Too much focus on lower tuition amounts to a
regressive social policy. ... What America needs is a much more
aggressive approach to need-based aid."
College Board Web site.
Click here
Register for the PSAT and SAT. Get test
dates, find test centers, and practice
with real questions. |
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