[Oe List ...] Great lines from Slicker's history of OE

[John Cock]

"Now, [in Evanston] it was either/or. Either we disband, or stay together so
that all get an equal stipend depending on the income available. We chose to
stay together. This was a milestone in our developing the rule of the Order.
. . .

"Toward the end of the first year [in Evanston] we got an invitation in
April or May of 1963 that the City Council wanted to talk with us. We had to
move. . . . [W]e did not seem to be the best of neighbors. We had a fire in
our Carriage House, our dogs scratched the neighbors flower beds, whereas
the Nuns next door brought their neighbors cakes and cookies. . . .

"All of those named are great souls living and expending their lives as best
they can. Which ones contributed the most or were most effective? . . .
[U]ltimately it is beyond our capacity to know. . . ."