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ESR 50th Anniversary

ESR is turning 50 years old. Check here for information about ESR's celebration activities. Help us celebrate the last 50 years as well as look forward to ESR's ministry among Friends in the coming years.

50th Anniversary Celebration Travel - 2009-2010

DATE

PLACE

EVENT THEME

Sept. 25 Richmond, IN, Earlham School of Religion 50th Anniversary Celebration
Oct. 3 Philadelphia, PA, Arch Street Meeting House The Intersection of Faith and Practice in Life and Ministry

Nov. 7

Grinnell, Iowa, Grinnell Friends Church

Vitality Among Friends

Dec. 5

Carmel, Indiana, Carmel Friends Meeting

Quaker Theology for our Time

Jan. 23

Greensboro, North Carolina, Centre Friends Meeting

Quakerism 102: Distinctives as Taught by ESR

Feb. 20

Whittier, California, Whittier Friends Meeting

Quaker History in the West

Mar. 13

Evanston, Illinois, Evanston Friends Meeting

Pastoral Care in the Monthly Meeting

TBA

Wichita, Kansas, Heartland Friends Meeting

TBA

May 15

White Plains, New York

TBA

June 19

Boston, Massachusetts, Cambridge Friends Meeting

TBA

July 31

Quaker Knoll Camp Lodge, Wilmington Yearly Meeting

The Light in the Understanding and Experience of Early Friends

August

Baltimore, Maryland

TBA

September

Atlanta, Georgia

TBA

October

Finale – Richmond, Indiana

 

 

Calendar Trivia

Jan, 2009

QUESTION: How many persons were in ESR's first graduating class in 1963?

ANSWER: 3 (Lawrence Barker, Paul Van Ness, Ann Weaver)

Feb, 2009Board of Advisors, Sept. 2008

QUESTION: In what month is the annual meeting of the ESR Board of Advisors?

ANSWER: September

March, 2009

QUESTION: What two pieces of original artwork hang in the ESR Center Gathering Room area?

ANSWER:

Peace Quilt
cross with eye of God

Emily Cooper's Quilt "The Lion and the Lamb shall dwell together in Peace"

McGaws of Boston, IN "Eye of God" Cross Sculpture

April, 2009

QUESTION: In what year did the ESR Center (stone building) open?

ANSWER: 1989

Building of the ESR CenterCompleted ESR Center

lectern in dining roomMay, 2009

QUESTION: What alum built the lectern used in the ESR dining room?

ANSWER: Keith Mardock

 

June, 2009

QUESTION: In what year did the faculty and staff re-paint ESR Center's classrooms and RBC's offices?

ANSWER: 2003

Jay painting outside of RBC

July, 2009

Keith EschQUESTION: What person has been an ESR student, ESR faculty member, ESR advisor & Earlham trustee?

ANSWER: Keith Esch

 

August, 2009

Tracy skydivingQUESTION: What ESR faculty member celebrated his/her 50th birthday by skydiving?

ANSWER: Tracy Crowe

 

September, 2009

QUESTION: What two countries did ESR faculty and staff visit as a group?

ANSWER: England & Honduras

 

October, 2009

QUESTION: A gift from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation funded the creation of what electronic resource?

ANSWER: Digital Quaker Collection

 

November, 2009

QUESTION: In what year did the partnership with Bethany Theological Seminary begin?

ANSWER: 1994