{"id":8772,"date":"2026-07-10T09:36:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T13:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=8772"},"modified":"2026-07-10T09:36:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T13:36:35","slug":"womans-society-minutes-june-15-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=8772","title":{"rendered":"Woman’s Society Minutes, June 15, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Durham Friends Woman\u2019s Society Meeting Minutes, June 15, 2026 Hybrid Meeting \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Present:<\/strong> Dorothy Curtis, President, Nancy Marstaller, Treasurer, Susan Gilbert, Secretary, Sarah Sprogell, Kim Bolshaw.  On Zoom:<\/strong> Joyce Gibson, Qat Langelier, Dorothy Hinshaw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cards: <\/strong> For Ingrid Chalufour, and Wendy Schlotterbek, sending prayers for her grandchild.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Program and Devotions: <\/strong>We took turns reading from USFWI Blueprints Volume 82, Lesson 9 \u201cA Thousand Unremarkable Steps, by Jonda Carey Hamilton. She quotes Jeff Manion in his book \u201cThink Big, Think Small\u201d: Success in the large things requires deep, abiding commitment to the small things. Pursuing a remarkable life is done by taking a thousand unremarkable steps. This we can do with the Quaker traits of simplicity, authenticity, integrity and faithfulness. We mentioned things we are grateful for, and sang \u201cJust a Closer Walk With Thee\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Treasurer\u2019s Report: <\/strong>Our current account balance is $1152. The plant sale earned $1072.  We will send half of the plant sale proceeds to the Ramallah Friends School scholarship fund, and half to the Maine Immigrants Rights Coalition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minutes: <\/strong>Susan read the 5.20.\u201926 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tedford Meal: <\/strong>Team A brought the June 1st dinner of lamb, mashed potatoes, broccoli, ice cream and cookies to Tedford House, assisted by Nancy\u2019s son. The July 6 meal will be prepared by  Team B, Nancy Marstaller Team Leader. Contributions of prepared food or money for Tedford meals on the first Monday of each month are always welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next Meeting: <\/strong>We will take July off, and host our annual pot luck supper at the Meeting House on August 17 at 6 PM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other Business: <\/strong>We received the annual reading list from USFWI and plan to donate 2 new books to the DF library. Kim suggested \u201cIf Trees Could Talk\u201d by Holly Worton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dorothy closed the meeting with this quote from Martin Luther:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For in the true grandeur of things, we will rightly consider, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Respectfully Submitted, Susan Gilbert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Durham Friends Woman\u2019s Society Meeting Minutes, June 15, 2026 Hybrid Meeting \u00a0 Present: Dorothy Curtis, President, Nancy Marstaller, Treasurer, Susan Gilbert, Secretary, Sarah Sprogell, Kim Bolshaw.  On Zoom: Joyce Gibson, Qat Langelier, Dorothy Hinshaw. Cards:  For Ingrid Chalufour, and Wendy Schlotterbek, sending prayers for her … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-womans-society"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9rLvf-2hu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8773,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8772\/revisions\/8773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}