Class of 1975
Class Chairs:
Catherine Montgomery Tinsley 202/363-1051; cmtins@aol.com
Bebe Axelrod quarker1975@yahoo.com
Class Notes:
Patricia Sittig
Patricia Sittig is now starting/directing the Partial Hospitalization Program for Arbour Counseling in Fall River, MA. 'I'm enjoying the administrative and clinical work, and may soon be 'on the road' marketing the program.' Her husband, Greg Boyd, is now homeschooling their two children (14 and 11).
(Posted May 08, 2008)
Katherine (Kathy) Cole
Our 2005 reunion already seems too long ago, so I have tried to stay in touch with some friends. Friends from Gurney House 1975 Jim Cox and wife Trish, Jeff May, Karen Crossen, Ann and Rob Upton and Sylvia Bronner and I gathered for a weekend Last August. And I'm meeting regularly for Earlham Book Club with Peggy Jarvis Ferrin, Judy Hijakata and Meg Wallace all of the class of 1976. I'm looking forward to another reunion in 2010. Since my son Sam McCormally graduated in 2007 my trips to Earlham have been less frequent.
(Posted February 13, 2008)
Sue Parker
After four years of working full time and studying half time, I completed my Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Capella University in December, 2007. My work as a library administrator has motivated me to switch from history, where I first began doctoral studies, to psychology, which allows me different tools to study and understand the environment in which I work.
(Posted January 23, 2008)
Cathy Montgomery Tinsley
Doug Bennett has asked the Earlham community what does it mean that Earlham is a Quaker College? I offer some of my own reflections and invite my classmates to join in with their own.
It is important to me that Earlham be a religious based educational institution because these are the institutions that are asking the most important questions: What should I learn and why? How should I act with this knowledge? What is right? How do I know? What difference will it make? How can we be a learning institution if we do not tackle these kinds of questions, but how can we take a stand, a Quaker stand, on these questions and still leave room for the diversity of answers, keeping our answers open to new understanding, new revelation? In the Outlook section of the Washington Post on October 21, 2007 the Dalai Lama submitted an editorial that touches on this paradox. He said: "A scientist from Chile once told me that it is inappropriate for a scientist to be attached to his particular field of study, because that would undermine his objectivity. I am a Buddhist practitioner, but if I mix up my devotion for Buddhism with an attachment to it, my mind will be biased toward it. A biased mind never sees the complete picture, and any action that results will not be in tune with reality. If religious practitioners can heed this scientist's advice and refrain from being attached to their own faith traditions, it could prevent the growth of fundamentalism. It also could enable such followers to genuinely respect faith traditions other than their own. I often say that while one can adhere to the principle of "one truth, one religion" at the level of one's personal faith, we should embrace at the same time the principle of "many truths, many religions" in the context of wider society. I see no contradiction between these two." At Earlham there should be no contradictions between being a religious institution of “one truth, one religion” and at the same time, an institution of learning with “many truths, many religions”. There is an important role for Earlham to play in higher education. We cannot leave religious based education to the fundamentalists. We must ask the hard questions, put an answer on the table, and listen with an open heart and open mind to the challenges to that answer. We must model living with the paradox.
I believe Earlham does a remarkably successful job of this.
(Posted January 08, 2008)
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