{"id":3129662,"date":"2016-08-01T00:01:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T04:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/stokes-clement-swisher\/"},"modified":"2016-08-01T00:01:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T04:01:54","slug":"stokes-clement-swisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/es\/stokes-clement-swisher\/","title":{"rendered":"Stokes Clement Swisher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Swisher\u2014<\/b><i><br \/>\n  <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stokes Clement Swisher<\/span><br \/>\n<\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, de 85 a\u00f1os, falleci\u00f3 el 31 de enero de 2016 en su casa, rodeado de su familia, en Falls Church, Virginia. Clem naci\u00f3 el 23 de septiembre de 1930 en Glenside, Pensilvania, y se licenci\u00f3 en f\u00edsica en el Guilford College. Se mud\u00f3 a Washington, D.C., en 1955 para trabajar como examinador de patentes en la Oficina de Patentes y Marcas de los Estados Unidos, y en 1984 recibi\u00f3 la Medalla de Bronce del Departamento de Comercio por su excelencia profesional.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cu\u00e1quero de toda la vida, Clem asisti\u00f3 durante seis d\u00e9cadas al Friends Meeting de Washington (D.C.), donde conoci\u00f3 a Sue Colman Jones. Se casaron en 1962 bajo el cuidado del Meeting de Wilton (Connecticut), en la ciudad natal de Sue. Traslad\u00f3 su membres\u00eda del Meeting de Abington (Pensilvania) al Friends Meeting de Washington (D.C.) en 1963, donde fue tesorero, secretario y miembro de muchos comit\u00e9s. Tambi\u00e9n form\u00f3 parte del Baltimore Yearly Meeting; fue presidente de Friends Nonprofit Housing; presidente de la Memorial Society of Metropolitan Washington; y participante en el Senior Center, reuni\u00e9ndose con el grupo de Alzheimer cada semana durante muchos a\u00f1os.   <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despu\u00e9s de jubilarse de la Oficina de Patentes en 1985, comenz\u00f3 a prestar servicio al Meeting como personal de mantenimiento. En 1993, por ejemplo, una lista de descripciones de una l\u00ednea del trabajo que hab\u00eda realizado sumaba veinte p\u00e1ginas. Catalog\u00f3 y etiquet\u00f3 los antiguos sistemas el\u00e9ctricos y de fontaner\u00eda y proporcion\u00f3 ayuda de mantenimiento a los miembros del Meeting en momentos de necesidad. Pero sus contribuciones al Meeting no fueron solo f\u00edsicas. Particip\u00f3 en innumerables talleres e intercambios de adoraci\u00f3n, proporcionando an\u00e1lisis reflexivos (y a menudo humor\u00edsticos) en los comit\u00e9s y Meetings de adoraci\u00f3n con atenci\u00f3n a los asuntos. Estaba especialmente preocupado por el racismo, en particular, el racismo cultural por el cual los Amigos exclu\u00edan involuntariamente a las personas. En 1997, mientras era miembro de Overseers, escribi\u00f3 una carta reflexiva a un asistente afroamericano que se hab\u00eda sentido rechazado, pidiendo ayuda para se\u00f1alar el comportamiento insensible racialmente. Asisti\u00f3 al Meeting de adoraci\u00f3n casi todos los Primeros D\u00edas durante muchos a\u00f1os, incluso despu\u00e9s de que la edad y la mala salud se cobraran su precio, exponiendo sus firmes creencias de manera amable. Su mente anal\u00edtica se prestaba tanto a cuestiones profundas como a c\u00f3mo arreglar un armario en la cocina del Meeting.        <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cuando se le preguntaba qu\u00e9 quer\u00eda como epitafio, Clem dec\u00eda con su ingenio seco que quer\u00eda ser recordado por criar a dos hijos, ninguno de los cuales estaba bajo la tutela del estado. Se echa de menos su presencia f\u00edsica en el Meeting, pero se recuerda su Luz. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Clem le sobreviven su esposa, Sue Colman Jones Swisher; dos hijos, Carl Swisher y Janet Swisher; y tres nietos.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swisher\u2014 Stokes Clement Swisher , de 85 a\u00f1os, falleci\u00f3 el 31 de enero de 2016 en su casa, rodeado de&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9829],"tags":[11068,20781,20777,11866,20782,11754,20780,20779,10763,20776],"fpb_issue_category":[10628],"class_list":["post-3129662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hitos","tag-casa","tag-falls-church","tag-friends-nonprofit-housing","tag-guilford-college","tag-oficina-de-marcas","tag-racismo","tag-senior-center","tag-sue-colman-jones-swisher","tag-trabajo","tag-wilton-connecticut","fpb_issue_category-agosto-de-2016-espacios-cuaqueros"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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