June 2022 Meeting Minutes

GRASS VALLEY FRIENDS MEETING

Of the Religious Society of Friends of the Truth

College Park Quarterly Meeting, Pacific Yearly Meeting

MINUTES & RECORD

Meeting for Worship on the Occasion of Business

06/12/2022

We met in a hybrid meeting on Zoom and in person.

Present:   Dean Olson(co-clerk),  Amy Cooke, 

The Meeting opened with silent worship.  

Clerks’ Remarks and Query

Action Items and Seasoning:

• Additions to the 2022-23 Meeting Slate
  • Doug Hamm for Pacific Yearly Meeting representative 
  • Doug Hamm for College Park Quarterly Meeting representative
  • Reed Hamilton and Sharon Davisson for the Spirit and Witness Committee.
  • Dean Olson for mail clerk.
• The Naming Committee brought forth the following names for Nominating, with terms:
  • Dorothy Henderson (fulfilling Pat Phillips term):  2022-2023
  • Sharon Davisson, continuing:  2021-2023
  • Judy Hamilton and Gordon Starr: 2022-2024

These names will now season until the 6th month Meeting for Business. 

COMMITTEE REPORTS (see reports appended, committee clerk is noted in bold)

NOMINATING:  Doug Hamm, Patrica Phillips, Karen Olson, Don McCormick and Pat Phillips

The committee brings forward the following names to season until Sixth Month:

• Doug Hamm for Pacific Yearly Meeting representative 
• Doug Hamm for College Park Quarterly Meeting representative
• Reed Hamilton and Sharon Davisson for the Spirit and Witness Committee.
• Dean Olson for mail clerk.

STEWARDSHIP:  Mary Starr, Gordon Starr, Reed Hamilton, Pat Phillips, Doug Hamm, Fosten Wilson (Treasurer, Ex-officio) Dianne Marshall (ex officio as Librarian and Newsletter Editor), Hailey Wilson, Reed Hamilton

SPIRIT & WITNESS: Gordon Starr, Judy Hamilton, Gordon Bishop, Dorothy Henderson, Dean and Karen Olson (ex-officio Co Clerks), Judy Hamilton

  Judy Hamilton gave the report, attached.

The Naming Committee brought forth the following names for Nominating, with terms:

Dorothy Henderson (fulfilling Pat Phillips term):  2022-2023

Sharon Davisson, continuing:  2021-2023

Judy Hamilton and Gordon Starr: 2022-2024

These names will now season until the 6th month Meeting for Business. 

WELCOME: Karen Olson, Kathy McCreery, ex officio Website/Facebook Coordinator (Amy Cooke), ex officio Zoom coordinator (Hailey Wilson and Stuart Smith), ex officio Email Coordinator (Judy Hamilton), Don McCormick, Pat Phillips.

CHILDREN’S PROGRAM:   Karen Olson, Judy Hamilton, Dorothy Henderson, Gordon Bishop, Anita McCormick, Doug Hamm, Don McCormick

OFFICER  REPORTS

• TREASURER see Stewardship Report

• SFC REPRESENTATIVE:  

• INTERFAITH NEVADA COUNTY: 

ANNOUNCEMENTS 

• Julia Reynolds memorial will be at 11 a.m. on June 18th at Trabucco Ranch
• Bob Barns’ memorial will be held on July 16, 2022.  It will be held on Zoom.  Additional details will be forthcoming.
• If you use Facebook, follow the Grass Valley Friends Meeting page, or join the Facebook Grass Valley Friends Meeting group. If you share a post from the page, your friends will see it! It helps our visibility.  Follow this link.
• Paul Hartsough is recovering from a serious stroke.   Hold him in your heart.   He is home now but can not communicate well. For updates, search for his name at “www.caringbridge.org”.
• Chamba Cooke, who is currently one of the amis-residents at the Centre Quaker Congenies in France, invited us to the Bicentennial Celebration of the Quakers in Congenies, France at the end of October. 
• Nancy Anderson needs support with Tristan on Mondays 4pm – 8 pm. Please contact her if you can help.  
• If you use Facebook, follow the Grass Valley Friends Meeting page, or join the Facebook Grass Valley Friends Meeting group. If you share a post from the page, your friends will see it! It helps our visibility.  Follow this link.
• It’s easy to give to Grass Valley Friends Meeting!  Go to gvfriends.org and click on the Give button.  This takes you to a secure site for donations. Please consider making your contribution monthly.  Your contribution covers our Pacific Yearly Meeting dues and ensures that our activities as a Meeting are sustained.  Thank you.  Please note: Tithely now allows the user to change the dollar of their gift without making a new donation request.  
• Sierra Friends Center has volunteer opportunities available.   See www.woolman.org. 

ACTION ITEMS & ITEMS SEASONING

READING OF THE RECORD AND MINUTES    

The record and the minutes were read, corrected and approved.

If you are giving a report to GVFM, please send the actual report to the recording clerk at grassvalleyfriends@gmail.com THE FRIDAY BEFORE MEETING FOR BUSINESS.     

GVFM Newsletter Reminder: Please have items into Diane Marshall by Tuesday at 10 am. 

The Meeting closed with silent worship.  

Respectfully recorded by Amy Cooke, recording clerk.  

APPENDICES:

1. Spirit and Witness Report
2. Children’s Program Report
3. Welcome Committee Report: Report on a Quaker Organization: FWCC
4. Stewardship Committee Report
5. Nominating Committee: SLATE
6. Treasurer’s Report

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June 2022 Spirit and Witness Report

The committee met June 4th, 2022.

We have several committees of care and they are all meeting on a more or less regular basis. We are

waiting for paperwork from San Francisco Meeting to proceed with Cheryl Hendrickson and David

Cowen’s transfer of membership from San Francisco to Grass Valley Friends. Cheryl and David will not

be around most of the summer so this may be postponed to the Fall. Crystal’s membership committee will be meeting with her sometime this month. 

We discussed plans for the upcoming Memorial Meetings and writing the Memorial Minutes for both Deb Auftenspring and Julia Reynolds. Deb’s Memorial Meeting is pretty much in place. Kathy McCreery will work with Friends who knew Deb and with Dean and Karen

to write the Minute. Dean and Karen will also write Julia’s Memorial Minute. Julia’s memorial is being

handled by the family. Dorothy is working with the family of Bob Barns on his memorial which will be

on Zoom. They do have a Zoom facilitator who will run the meeting. Dorothy is also contacting the

various organizations that Bob was involved in (RSRW, PYM, AVP) to let them know when the Memorial Meeting will be happening. The date is July 16th.

We discussed monthly reporting on the Quaker organizations and wondered how it was proceeding. It

was felt that this needs to be discussed with Meeting as a whole to see how we want to continue this.

Spiritual Life programs are scheduled though September and are as follows:

• June-Doctrine of Discovery with Dianne Marshall
• July-Spiritual Biography with Don McCormick
• August- Evaluation of the year’s programs
• September- Possible retreat at the Starr home—topic to be decided.

The Waking Up book group has started a new book History of Us (a history of the Nisenan) in their continuation of exploring as to where their energy needs to center.

Gordon Starr brought up the idea of having regular get togethers (like Friendly Eights) so newcomers can get to know others in the Meeting. This will probably be done in conjunction with the Welcoming

Committee.