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Genre/Form: | Interviews |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Christine Ayoub |
ISBN: | 1469162547 9781469162546 1469162555 9781469162553 |
OCLC Number: | 870842742 |
Notes: | Includes index. "Rev. date: 04/25/2014"--Title page verso. |
Description: | 10 unnumbered pages, xvi, 361 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Responsibility: | edited by Christine Ayoub. |
Abstract:
The book consists of excerpts from interviews of senior members of State College Friends Meeting. The narrators who lived through the Great Depression tell of their difficult childhood -- and yet in most cases one they regarded as happy. Some of the conscientious objectors during World War II tell of life in Civilian Public Service camps; others speak of using nonviolent methods with mental patients, while still others relate stories of participation in "human guinea pig" experiments. Of those who did relief work after the war overseas, probably the most exciting tales are told by the four who worked with the Friends Ambulance Unit in China, located near to where the Nationalists and the Communists were fighting.-- Publisher's description.
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- American Friends Service Committee.
- Civilian Public Service.
- State College Friends Meeting.
- War -- Religious aspects.
- Society of Friends.
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- State College -- Interviews.
- Quakers -- United States -- Interviews.
- Pacifists -- United States -- Interviews.
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Interviews.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends.
- Retirement communities -- Pennsylvania -- State College.
- Conscientious objectors.
- Pacifists.
- Quakers.
- Retirement communities.
- Pennsylvania -- State College.
- United States.