American Friends Service Committee

Organization

Staff Only

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Friends World Committee for Consultation. Section of the Americas Records

Collection

Identifier: SFHL-RG1

Overview A Friends World Conference Committee, sponsored by the Fellowship Council of the American Friends Service Committee, was established in 1932 to promote better understanding among Friends world wide. The representatives at the Second World Conference of Friends, held at Swarthmore and Haverford Colleges, Pa., in 1937, approved the establishment of a continuing international organization, a Friends World Committee, to promote international contacts and cooperation among Friends. In 1958, it...

Dates: 1933-2010

Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Sky Island Papers

Collection

Identifier: SFHL-RG4-121

Overview

Sky Island was a refugee vacation hostel run by the American Friends Service Committee in copperation with the American Christian Committee for Refugees from about 1938 until at least 1947. Flora E. Pottenger was a teacher from Warsaw, Indiana, who worked at Sky Island during the summer of 1946. Her Sky Island papers, all photocopies, include correspondence, reports, and photographs.

Dates: 1945-1947

Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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American Friends Service Committee

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Friends World Committee for Consultation. Section of the Americas Records

Sky Island Papers

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