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Martha Perry Gwyn

Gwyn—Martha Perry Gwyn, 96, on September 5, 2020, following a short battle with COVID-19 at the Carol Woods Retirement Home…

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Friends Journal Reviewer Survey

Our volunteer reviewers share some of their all-time favorite books for Quakers.

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Sane Spiritual Voice

Fay Honey Knopp

Books: April 2014

This month's reviews include The Essential Elias Hicks, The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies, and A Guidebook to Prayer.

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Robert Lawrence Smith

Smith—Robert Lawrence Smith, 96, on May 24, 2021, peacefully, at home in Bethesda, Md. Born in 1924, Bob was a…

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Nora Ruth Roberts

Roberts—Nora Ruth Roberts, 76, on December 26, 2018, in New York, N.Y. Nora was born on April 19, 1942, in…

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Robert Dolphin Jr.

Dolphin—Robert Dolphin Jr., 84, on October 19, 2019, at Friendship Village Tempe’s Health Care Center in Tempe, Ariz. Bob was…

May Milestones 2012

Ackerman—Dorothy Hopkirk Ackerman, 90, on March 10, 2011, at home in Minneapolis, Minn. Dorothy was born on October 23, 1920,…

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Managing Conflict and Natural Resources through Good Clerking: The Legacy of Gilbert F. White

Gilbert Fowler White, one of the world’s foremost geographers and a member of the Religious Society of Friends, died in…

Robert E. Hinshaw

Rachel Carson and Her Sisters: Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America’s Environment

By Robert K. Musil. Rutgers University Press, 2014. 328 pages. $26.95/hardcover; $23.95/paperback; $15.98/eBook. Silent Spring author Rachel Carson is credited…

Reviewed by Gwen Gosney Erickson