Briefer Notices

Briefer Notices Barbara L. Curtis, compiler The annual meeting of Friends Historical Association took place on Eleventh month 12th, 1990 at Friends Meetinghouse, 4th and Arch Sts., Philadelphia. Following a social period and supper together in the East Room the group of some 90 members and friends gathered in the Monthly Meeting room at 7:30 p.m. Under the able direction of Margaret H. Bacon, president of the Association, the regular business was completed. Reports were read and approved from the Treasurer, the auditors, the editor of QuakerHistory, the chairpersons of historical publications, and the membership and nominating committees. Minutes of the annual meeting of the Association in 1989 were read and approved with thanks expressed for the work which these reports entail. Margaret Bacon then introduced the speaker of the evening, Irwin Abrams. Dr. Abrams, retired professor of history at Antioch University, gave an informative and insightful account of events leading up to the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947. The joint recipients were the American Friends Service Committee and the British Friends Service Council. In early summer 1990 a centenary was observed at Scattergood School in West Branch, Iowa. The event was marked in part by the publication of a book called Scattergood Friends School: 1890-1990. The authors are Robert Berquist, David Rhodes and Carolyn Smith Treadway. This hard cover volume contains 399 pages, 72 photographs and an index. Copies are available from the school at $15.00, which includes postage. Address the school at Route #1, Box 32, West Branch, IA 52358. A review copy has been received by Thomas Hamm, of Earlham College, book review editor for Quaker History. The Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists, at its business meeting at the close of the 8th Biennial meeting held at George Fox College, Newberg, Oregon, June 22nd to 24th, 1990, decided after careful discussion to retain its biennial schedule. The next meeting of the conference will be held in 1992 at Wilmington College. This is in response to an invitation from Wilmington to the conference to participate in their 100th anniversary events taking place in 1992 in Wilmington , Ohio. The steering committee for the conference will be chaired by Carole Treadway. Others who agreed to serve with her in planning the gathering are Larry Ingle, Charles Cherry, Jack Marietta, Barbara R. Dailey, Ina Kelley and John Oliver. Persons proposing papers to present in 1992 are invited to get in touch with Carole Treadway, Chair, Steering Committee, Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists, Guilford College Library, Greensboro, NC 27410. The Board of Directors of the Friends Historical Association at its regular meeting held on Tenth month 10, 1990 requested that notice be given in Quaker History, Spring 1991, that interested persons may obtain a full copy of the Constitution and By-laws of the Association. Please write to Elisabeth P. Brown, Secretary, at the Quaker Collection, Haverford College, Haverford, PA 19041. ...