[Dialogue] 44 years ago today ...

[Wilson Priscilla]

I often wondered when and why Michael Borge left. He was on the Board at the time.
One of our best stories...Rod called the west side about something...I think he and Len Dresslar were getting ready to deliver something to the west side. Anyway, when he called who ever answered the switch board said, "I can give you that number, let me blow the ashes off this list first."
Priscilla

On Apr 7, 2012, at 1:18 PM, W. J. wrote:

> Sometimes our legalism needs to get radically called into question by the intrusion of divine activity (which is not at all the same as any human activity).
> Yes, we all knew who set the fires (as well as who put them out). And, according to Lingo (I think) there was a lawyer in our group who was insistent that we report who dunnit to the cops. His first name was Michael. 
> Of course JWM was wise enough to know that we owed our continued existence in 5th City to the willingness of the local community--including the fire setters--to have us stay. And apparently that didn't sit too well with this lawyer! So he and his family picked up and left.
> When I arrived a few weeks later, there were burns in the carpet in the middle of the seminar rooms, as well as the bullet holes in the doors etc (hence the name of the "bullet hole office" at the top of the stairs in the Administration Building). Funny how those little details stick with you long after the building's been 'dozed.
> Marshall
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> Mixed memories.  Mine included Tony going around putting out fires as (never mentioned) friends set them in the building, and instructions not to discuss those activities with the police, JWM talking earnestly with folk asking them not to destroy what we were building.  Life is complex.
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> We lived near O'Hare so we were picking up returning pedagogues from the weekend...then farming out Order children until the riots quieted down. We had the Marshall children at our house during for a week...or more, I can't remember. 
> I'm sure everyone has memories of those moments...where we were when we got the word of MLK's death and the subsequent fires across the nation.
> Thanks for the reminder of how the "gangs" really saved the Institute work at that moment.
> Priscilla
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> On Apr 5, 2012, at 8:31 PM, Ken Fisher wrote:
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> Dear Colleagues,
> On my fb page I wrote ...
> 44 years today, the West Side and South Side were burning and seething with rage. The shock of 'oblivion' or non-being catapulted Joe Mathews and the Order: Ecumenical into the New Religious Mode and the New Social Vehicle. I recall arriving on the West Side five weeks later and being a part of the spirit rebirth of that cataclysmic event. At that time, Gene Beasely and his gang moved into an apartment of 3444 as protection.
> Ken
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> From Kathleen Hamm Jones 
> Wow, thanks, Ken. I remember so well where I was, in an apartment on Blackstone St in Hyde Park. Unlike the West side of Chicago, the Southside was kept from burning mostly by patrols by Jeff Fort and the Blackstone Rangers, who went door to door of the businesses and posted flyers signalling their protection of the establishments. The back story was of course about Rev John Fry of 1st Presbyterian Church who poured his whole life and at times, his sanity, into making that gang into a precursor of the "guardians" which got attention in NYC later. Somewhere I think I still have his book of sermons from that time called "Fire and Blackstone." Since then I think we have gone backward in institutional racism, as the USA leads the world in incarceration of African-American males. And on top of that fact, the pernicious reality that prison populations are being "sold" as private corporations take over running the prisons. It's a profitable biz if you contract out cheap captive labor. It makes my head feel like exploding.
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