Worldview (review)

62QUAKER HISTORY of the Underground Railroad, their public participation in the antislavery debate had to wait until the generation of the Grimké sisters and Lucretia Mott, with their conviction that women should claim their own right to freedom while speaking for the downtrodden slaves. Bryn Mawr, PennsylvaniaThomas E. Drake Worldview. By Leonard S. Kenworthy. Richmond, Indiana: Friends United Press, 1977. 262 pages. $4.95. Here's a book of many uses—didactic, interesting and good humored. One good use would be for inquirers and attendere at Meeting. Many chapters are really essays, one specifically on the Society of Friends, others on a Quaker childhood in Indiana, on life in a Quaker boarding school (Westtown) and college (Earlham), on teaching in Friends schools (Friends Select and Friends Central), and on Quaker education. About the latter he comments: "I feel that Quaker schools have a distinctive role to play as a special outreach of the Religious Society of Friends. Surely educating mature , intelligent, concerned individuals is as important, or more so, as caring for die broken individuals produced by a sick society." Even greater usefulness of Worldview is its witness to the significance of die life of an able, sophisticated, modern Quaker—a "character" of a modern Friend. Here is the persuasive answer to the question, "But what does it mean to live as a Quaker?" Of special interest to Friends will be the essay on the Civilian Public Service Camps of World War II in which Leonard Kenworthy spent three and a half years, almost dying of hepatitis in one of the guinea pig experiments . From his experience there he drew a parallel between the failure of Penn's Holy Experiment in Pennsylvania and the agony of the CPS camps which arose out of the "undue generosity to persons who did not believe in what (Quakers) were trying to do. ... It is one thing to be generous; it is another thing to be generous to die point that you destroy what you have worked long and hard to create." Many could parallel Leonard Kenworthy's experience in CPS, but absolutely unique is his inclusion as a Quaker among the earliest shapers of UNESCO. Following a tour of Greece, he wrote two booklets: The Teacher and the Post-War Child in Devastated Cultures and Going to School in WarDevastated Countries, such as Poland, Norway and China. The latter booklet was successful in raising large sums of money for the work of UNESCO. During these years Leonard Kenworthy was directly involved in both the leg work and the leadership in promoting education that would lead to international understanding. He has devoted much of his subsequent teaching, writing and editing to the development of educational materials and methods appropriate to such goals. For it is as a teacher-learner, an ardent experimenter or finder-advocate of effective, humane education that Leonard Kenworthy has ministered most cogently. This book, though especially important for social studies teachers, is nevertheless rewarding for all teachers. Much of his professional career has been spent as a member of the Education Department of Brooklyn BOOK REVIEWS AND NOTES63 College. He was drawn there at the invitation of Carleton Washburne, who was "a pioneer and hoped to embark on new programs in teacher education and in international education." Leonard Kenworthy is always teaching: his book is full of charts, bibliographies, checklists and little lectures. They are clearly thoughtful, certainly provocative, and above all useful. West Chester, PennsylvaniaThomas S. Brown Bibliography of Pennsylvania History: A Supplement. Edited by Carol Wall. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and Pittsburgh : Pennsylvania Library Association. 1976. 252 pages. $7.00. We welcome the publication of the Bibliography of Pennsylvania History: A Supplement which continues the splendid volume edited earlier by Norman B. Wilkinson and S. K. Stevens. This work carries the bibliographies down to the year 1965. Since that date the State Library of Pennsylvania is issuing annual supplements entitled The Years Work in Pennsylvania Studies. There are slight changes in the organization of this new volume and also a different type face, probably dictated by cost (the 1957 edition with more than 800 pages sold at the same price as this 250 page publication). The...