Memories of the Quaker Past: Stories of Thirty-Seven Senior Quakers

Annotation

The book consists of excerpts from interviews of senior membersof State College Friends Meeting. The narrators who livedthrough the Great Depression tell of their difficult childhoodand yet inmost cases one they regarded as happy. Some of the conscientious objectorsduring WWII tell of life in CPS camps; others speak of using nonviolentmethods with mental patients, while still others relate the story of the humanguinea experiments some of them participated in. Of those who did relief work after the war overseas, probably themost exciting tales are told by the four who worked with the FriendsAmbulance Unit in China. They happened to be located close to where theNationalists and the Communists were fighting.