LINKS

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About the School, and Local Interest

Friends Boarding School A small, Quaker boarding school located in Southeastern Ohio:    http://www.Olneyfriends.org

Website of Stratton House Inn, Flushing, Ohio.  Extensive information about Olney and local history.  Very nice website http://www.strattonhouse.com/index.php?section=history&content=olney

Barnesville's own website!  http://www.barnesvilleohio.com

Barnesville Pumpkin Festival! http://www.barnesvillepumpkinfestival.com

Vintage "Olney College" post card (Note the gravel drive and "Girl's Porch" on the Main)-This website is loaded with links and statistical info about Barnesville. (Number of violent crimes and murders for 2003 was 0.) http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=16309

Ohio County Maps (click on Belmont Co.) http://www.ohiobiz.com/countymaps.htm

 

About Quakers, Quakerism, Quaker Schools

"The Religious Society of Friends."  Links to EVERYTHING Quaker you could possibly imagine, and then some.  A comprehensive and fabulous resource. http://quaker.org/

Quakers-Trembling and Quaking Their Way into American History  One of the best short introductions to Quakerism, ever!  Written for high school students, but-- print it out and hand it to someone who asks about Quakerism. And.Includes a visit to Olney by the author, Irene!  Explore the other topics, too. http://www.ustrek.org/odyssey/semester1/100400/100400irenequakers.html

"A short fractured history of Friends in America" A quick summary of the schisms and branches of  American Quakerism.   http://www.strecorsoc.org/docs/fracture.html

Ohio Yearly Meeting Official Website (believe it or not) http://www.ohioyearlymeeting.org

Ohio Yearly Meeting: Quakerism's Reluctant Pioneers Chuck Fager's 1989 article about OYM and Olney http://www.afriendlyletter.com/afl101.html

Quaker Schools Worldwide-- links to Friends schools' websites, from the website of Friends' School, Saffron Walden, Essex, England http://www.friends.org.uk/quakers/qschools.htm

Quakerinfo.org.  When you click on Branches on the dropdown under Quakerism, one of the links on the Branches page is the following map which shows unprogrammed yearly meetings: http://www.quakerinfo.org/quakerism/friendsmap.htm  OYM is represented by 6 little purple diamonds in Ohio, one in Chester Co., PA and one in VA.  Accoding to the key listed in the Gulf of Mexico there are 531 members and 9 meetings. 

 

Friends United Meeting-"An Association of Friends Churches Around the World" Formerly known as the Five Years Meeting, this other flavor of Quakerism with programmed meetings and pastors is headquartered in Richmond,  Indiana.

http://www.fum.org/index.html

 

Miscellaneous

Friends Music Camp (at Olney Friends School )

http://www.quaker.org/friends-music-camp/

   

Growing Up Plain -an excerpt from Wilmer Cooper's book describes his childhood in Middleton , Ohio , the epicenter of  Ohio Conservative Quakerism where he grew up with his older brothers James and Thomas (both later served as business managers at Olney). Kenneth Morse (German teacher at Olney in the '60's) is mentioned as having run a grocery store.  Wilmer Cooper was a founder and Dean at the Earlham School of Religion.

http://www.fum.org/FUP/plain.htm

 

Thomas Cooper, A Memorial Biography,  posted on the Ohio Yearly Meeting Website

http://www.ohioyearlymeeting.org/mem_thomas_cooper.htm

 

Morris L. Kirk, A Memorial Biography posted on the Ohio Yearly Meeting Website.  Morris Kirk was a teacher and principal at Olney and father of Olney's current Business Manager, Beverly Kirk Shull '68.

http://www.ohioyearlymeeting.org/mem_morris_kirk.htm

 

Pictures from the Wedding of Allen Starbuck '66 in 2001.  He asked Dana to be his best man.  Allen looks distinguished, and get a load of Dapper Dana!  (Thanks, Gerry..)

http://home.att.net/~ericstarbuck/wedding/wedding.html

Peace Pilgrim  Official Website (She came to Olney on Friday, November 9, 1962)  You can still buy her book and a video about her from Amazon.com.  She died in 1981, but her wisdom lives on. http://peacepilgrim.org

Olney as seen  through the eyes of a miscreant former student without a clue.  And a very weird website. http://www.uncoolcentral.com/olney_fire.htm  (I second and intensify Gerry's comment on this one! - DZ)

Thanks to Gerry for the structure and content.