Records & Handbook Committee

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The Records and Handbook Committee meets as necessary to establish policy concerning the generation, maintenance, and storage of Meeting records. This Committee is also charged with identifying actions of the Meeting for Business and of Monthly Meeting committees which require changes in the Handbook, developing appropriate revisions, and presenting those revisions to the Meeting for Business as necessary. A report on Handbook changes is presented semi-annually and the full Handbook is reprinted as the number and complexity of revisions warrants. Revisions not reflecting decisions already approved by the Meeting for Business are held over for at least one month. Editorial changes and corrections of errors of fact are reported by the committee but need not be held over.

Members include the Recorder and one or both Meeting Historians; they have no specific terms. In addition, two or three members, recommended by the Nominating Committee for approval by the Meeting for Business, are appointed for staggered three-year terms. Additional members may be co-opted as necessary, and volunteer helpers may be needed at times. The Records and Handbook Committee consults with the Library Committee when appropriate.

Montague Kern, (202)362-4739.

Click this link to see a list of committee members.

This Handbook is currently being updated.  Some sections may be out-of-date. Please contact the FMW Office with any questions. To download a .pdf copy of the Handbook, touch this link: 

The Friends Meeting of Washington 2007 Handbook 

Committee members invite all Friends to join in two special events in the coming months:

Book Publication Celebration
May 16, 11:45 a.m.
Friends Meeting of Washington Assembly Room.  
 
Writers, editors, artists, book designers and makers of history will gather to talk about chapters of these books.  Join us at FMW as we fete two companion histories. To see a summary of each book double click on the name of each book using the links provided:

Seeking the Sense of the Meeting: A History of Friends Meeting of Washington 1972-1992
Anniversary Essays:  Celebrating 75 Years at Friends Meeting of Washington.

Light refreshments will be served. All are welcome.




Committee members invite all Friends to attend a Conference of Quaker Historians
June 25-27 at Wilmington College.
 
Friends Meeting of Washington Panel, Conference of Quaker Historians
          and Archivists, Wilmington College, Saturday,  June 26, 2010
The Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists will hold it's eighteenth biennial conference at Wilmington College in Wilmington, Ohio, June 25-27.  Our panel will be held from l0:45 a.m. to l2:15 p.m.  It will be chaired by an Australian Friend and Archivist Alan Clayton.  All Friends are invited to attend. Individuals who wish to attend the conference can find relevant information at the:  
www.guilford.edu/about_guilford/services_and_administration/library/fhc/cqha/2010.html           
 

Seeking the Sense of the Meeting: A History of Friends Meeting of
                    Washington 1972-1992 
 
Coming to Washington: Balancing Local and National Sensibilities
Montague Kern (Rutgers University) and Tara Tappert (Tappert & Associates,
Archives and American Art Consultants)
 
A Friends Meeting Struggles for Lesbian, Gay and Same Sex Unions in the Nation’s
            Capital   Riley Robinson (General Secretary, Baltimore Yearly Meeting)
 
Peace-Making in a Time of Growth: The Meeting Confronts an Odd
Break-in, Anti-Nixon Demonstrations at the White House, Draft Resistance and Its Support for a Fledgling William Penn House
            J.E. McNeil (Executive Director, Center on Conscience & War) 
 
Editing the 75th Anniversary Lectures: A Personal Journey        
            William Palmer (Independent Journalist and Editor)
 
Friends Meeting of Washington and the Idea of Quaker Unity
Deborah Lee Haines (Independent Historian and Clerk, Alexandria
            Friends Meeting)