Historical News: Friends Historical Association

Historical News Friends Historical Association The Spring Meeting of Friends Historical Association was held on Seventh Day, Fifth Month 20, 196I, at Newtown Square Meetinghouse, Pennsylvania. A sunny day for a historical pilgrimage and two notable historical anniversaries to observe filled the meetinghouse with more than a hundred members and their friends. President Howard H. Brinton, after welcoming the gathering, spoke of the two anniversaries and introduced the speakers. It was the 250th anniversary of the building of the house at Newtown Square; Hilary Conroy, a member of the meeting, spoke briefly and amusingly of its history. 196I is also the tercentenary of the oldest Quaker Yearly Meeting, that of New England, and we had the pleasure of hearing Mary Hoxie Jones read appropriate portions of her informative history of the earliest sessions. The usual pleasant box supper followed the exercises. Members and subscribing libraries are again reminded that when the next issue of this magazine arrives in the Spring of 1962, it will bear a new title: QUAKER HISTORY. Don't be shocked or taken aback: it will still be the Bulletin of Friends Historical Association, in fact Volume LI thereof, behind a new cover. Have you copies of the following back numbers of the Bulletin? Vol. IV, no. 2 (1912)Vol. XVI, no. 1 (1927) Vol. X, no. 1 (1920)Vol. XVI, no. 2 (1927) Vol. X, no. 2 (1921)Vol. XXX, no. 1 (1941) Vol. XV, no. 1 (1926)Vol. XXXIV, no. 2 (1945) Friends Historical Association needs copies of these numbers only to fill out complete back files for sale to libraries. If you are willing, please send them promptly to bess orr haakinson, Friends Historical Association, Haverford College Library, Haverford, Pa. Ill ...