Briefer Notices

Briefer Notices Prepared by Barbara L. Curtis Crosslands #188 Kennett Square, PA 19348 The annual spring meeting of Friends Historical Association was held on Sunday, May 6, at Frankford Friends Meeting House, Unity and Wain Sts., Philadelphia. Members and their friends met for worship at 10:30 a.m. with Frankford Friends. Following meeting many attenders drove to the nearby grounds of Friends Hospital and saw the display of azaleas as guests of the hospital and its managers. Picnic lunches were enjoyed back at the Meeting House, with beverages and desserts generously provided by local Friends. The attenders then reassembled for two talks. Margaret Hope Bacon, President of Friends Historical Association, first introduced Margaret Tricky, clerk of Frankford Meeting, who gave a brief account of some of the history of Friends in the area and in the meeting. In the absence owing to illness of the announced speaker, William Williams of the Fine Arts Department of Haverford College, Edwin B. Bronner, Curator of the Quaker Collection, gave an address "American Friends in Transition, as Viewed through British Quaker Periodicals, 1865-1880." This essay is to be published within the next year. Friends Historical Association at the stated meeting of the directors held at Friends Center, Philadelphia, on April 4, accepted with regret the resignation of Lyman Riley as Editor of Quaker History, following publication of the Fall issue 1990, Vol. 79, No. 2. Also at this meeting Albert M. Fowler, Treasurer of the Association, submitted his resignation. The directors asked Mary Ellen Chijioke of Friends Historical Library staff at Swarthmore College to assume treasurership. This she agreed to do on June 30, 1990. Subsequent to the above board meeting the Friends Historical Association announced the appointment of Charles Cherry to become the editor of Quaker History, beginning with the issue for Spring, 1991, Volume 80, No. 1. Cherry will have as his associate editor Caroline Cherry. The Cherrys both hold doctorates from the University of North Carolina and are respectively Associate Vice-president for Academic Affairs at Villanova University and Professor of English at Eastern College, St. Davids, PA. All manuscripts, book reviews, and general and business correspondence relating to the magazine will continue to be addressed to Quaker Collection, Haverford College Library, Haverford, PA 19041. The eighth biennial Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists was held at George Fox College, Newberg, Oregon, on June 22-24, 1990. Six sessions held over a three-day period dealt with a wide range of topics including Quaker architecture, women in ministry in Britain and in America, historiographical considerations, and individual biographical studies. One of the sessions was devoted to archival publications. Some of the papers delivered at the conference may appear in later issues of Quaker History. Edwin B. Bronner, Curator of the Quaker Collection and Professor of History at Haverford College, retired from those posts at the close of the 1989-1990 academic year after 28 years of service. The College is pleased to announce the appointment of Emma J. Lapsansky as Curator of the Quaker Collection 1 1 8 Quaker History and Associate Professor of History. Dr. Lapsansky, formerly Associate Professor of History at Temple University, has a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in American Civilization and is a member of Lansdowne Friends Meeting. ...