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 Quiara
Alegría Hudes wrote the book for In
the Heights, recipient of the 2008
Tony Award for Best Musical. Her recent play,
Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Her new play, 26 Miles, will premier at The Alliance Theatre
next season. Quiara's honors include the Lucille Lortel Award
Award for Outstanding Musical, the HOLA Award for Achievement
in Playwriting, and the Clauder Prize for her first play, Yemaya's
Belly. She has degrees from Yale and Brown Universities, is
a resident writer at New Dramatists, and a previous Page 73
Playwriting Fellow. She was born and raised in West Philadelphia,
where she began composing music and writing. Read
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 Maddi
Diaz, musician/singer/composer
Skin and Bone, Madi's début solo album,
is filled with songs rich in precocious wisdom, unassuming
poetry, and melodic sophistication. Without paying direct
homage to a particular time or place, the record evokes the
locations of Diaz's youth: the wide-open spaces of the Amish
countryside, the unsettling thrills and daunting possibilities
of Philly's urban jungle - and the longing and loneliness
common to both.
Read more. . . and
hear Maddi's music.
Photo
credit: Adam Jason
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Hi everyone
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Enjoy! -Elizabeth Walmsley
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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 July 15, 2008, $3759 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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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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is space in any Young Friends gathering unless an announcement
that the event is closed has been posted here on the Young
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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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