Memories of the Quaker Past

The book consists of excerpts from interviews of senior members of State College Friends Meeting. The narrators who lived through the Great Depression tell of their difficult childhood-and yet in most cases one they regarded as happy. Some of the conscientious objectors during WWII tell of life in CPS camps; others speak of using nonviolent methods with mental patients, while still others relate the story of the human guinea experiments some of them participated in. Of those who did relief work after the war overseas, probably the most exciting tales are told by the four who worked with the Friends Ambulance Unit in China. They happened to be located close to where the Nationalists and the Communists were fighting.

Interviewees: Edward Atkinson, Elton Atwater, Christine Ayoub, Elizabeth Jelinek Boardman, Renee C Crauder, Robert Crauder, Keith Doms, Margaret Doms, Lucretia Evans, Eleanor Fergson, Gary Fosmire, Philip Furnas, Alice M Hoffman, Arthur J Mekeel, Etta Albrecht Mekeel, Douglas Miller, Grace Miller ,Hanna Peck, Libby Pennock, Roger Pennock, Carolyn Rudd, Ralph Rudd, Mardy Shaw, Mark Shaw, Jane Jenks Small, Marjorie Smith, Reed M. Smith, Richard Taber, Carolyn Tuttle, Dean Tuttle, Shirley Tuttle, Emily Way, Elwood Way, Mary Way, Roger D Way, Lloyd Williams 

Author: Christine Ayoub

Publisher: Xlibris, 2014

ISBN: 9781469162546

Paperback, 388 pages