Friends United Meeting (U.S.)
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Charles E. (Charles Eugene) Fager Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-214
Abstract
Charles Eugene Fager is a Quaker writer, publisher, educator, and activist. Born in 1942, "Chuck" Fager graduated from Colorado State University and attended Harvard Divinity School. After working for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Selma, Alabama, he performed Vietnam CO alternative service at Friends World College in 1966. He left FWC the following year, devoting his time to writing and freelance work. In the mid 1980s Fager started Kimo Press, a small publishing operation...
Dates:
1976-1999
Robert Bryan Michener and Edith Riner Michener. Kenya correspondence
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-317
Abstract
The collection contains the correspondence of Robert Bryan Michener and Edith Riner Michener written while serving as Quaker missionaries in Kenya, East Africa, in the 1930s. Working under the auspices of the American Friends African Mission, a program of the Five Years Meeting, R. Bryan Michener served as a physician at the hospital in Kaimosi and then principal of the Boys’ School. Edith Michener first taught English at the Boys’ School and then organized the Girls’ Boarding School. ...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1930 - 1970; 1920 - 1984
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- American Literature 1
- Bible -- Children's use -- Congresses 1
- Bible -- Study and teaching -- Congresses 1
- Bible -- Theology -- Congresses 1
- Church controversies -- Society of Friends 1
- Conscientious objectors -- United States 1
- Friendly Letter 1
- Kenya 1
- Kenya -- Kaimosi 1
- Oral histories 1
- Quaker Physicians 1
- Quaker authors 1
- Quaker conscientious objectors 1
- Quaker educators 1
- Quaker missionaries 1
- Quakers -- Africa -- History 1
- Quakers -- Africa, East 1
- Society of Friends -- Africa, East -- History 1
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