SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORKING GROUP

The Friend’s Working Group on the Environment of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting was originally formed at the 1975 Yearly Meeting as the Working Group on Nuclear Energy to address a concern on nuclear power plant legislation. At the 1977 Yearly Meeting, the group recommended that it be continued under the name of Working Group on Energy, and its focus shifted from the debate on nuclear power to conservation and consciousness of energy among Friends. In 1980 the group reported irresolvable differences amongst its members on the issue of nuclear power, and seems to have stopped meeting from 1981 to 1983, at which point the concern of nuclear power was taken up by both the Special Peace Project and the New Call to Peacemaking. The Working Group on Stewardship of the Environment was created in 1984 and presented its mission to the 1985 Yearly Meeting as preserving God’s Creation through education and conservation. The group continued its work under various names, eventually becoming the Friend’s Environmental Working Group, through 1992.

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BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

Records of the Working Group on Nuclear Energy, the Working Group on Energy, the Working Group on Stewardship of the Environment, and the Friend’s Environmental Working Group, all of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, 1977-1992.

Organization:

Series 1. Predecessor Committee Records

Series 2. Minutes

Series 3. Correspondence

Series 4. Clerks’ Files

Series 5. Financial Papers

Series 6. Events

Series 7. Publicity

Series 8. Other groups

Series 9. Photographs

Series 10. Miscellaneous

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Restrictions

Access

Collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

Copyright has not been assigned to the Repositories. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to the individual Meeting or its successor. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Repositories as the holder(s) of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.

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SEARCHING IN OUR ON-LINE CATALOGUE FOR RELATED MATERIALS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in TRIPOD, the joint on-line catalog of Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.

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Administrative Information

Accession information

Deposit, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

Note to Researchers: These records may only be consulted at Swarthmore (SW), and are not available through inter-Library loan. To request materials on-site, please make sure to use the correct call numbers for the Library in which you wish to use the records:

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