[Oe List ...] [Dialogue] Order annuity

[Nancy Lanphear]

Dear Marilyn,

I so appreciate you for your perspective in the midst of this issue having
many challenges.  Thank you for speaking.  We, too, wear our silver rings
knowing that we are the Order forever.

With love to you and Joe,

Nancy

2009/4/23 Marilyn R Crocker <marilyncrocker at juno.com>

>  Dear David,
>
>
>
> With you, Joe and I have wondered how, with what criteria, and when the
> decisions about the annuity were made, since when we travelled to Oaxtapec
> in November of 1988, we still understood ourselves to be the Order.  After
> 20 years in the OE at that point, we, like you, were somehow “factored out”
> and received nothing from the Order annuity.
>
>
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> There is a plethora of documentation to support our “entitlement”to the
> Order annuity, but when Joe was told after repeated conversations with Carol
> Pierce, that somehow, we were “no longer considered on the assignment chart
> as of November 1988,” I urged Joe to “just forget it.”  This happened
> after our having risked much in continuing to provide self support over the
> years to the OE as the Orlando “outpost” to the turbulently changing Primary
> Unit configurations, to which we had been annexed in at least 4 different
> entities in fewer years -- Jamaica, Atlanta, Houston, and finally Chicago
> --often with fledgling priorship.
>
>
>
> I was reminded of the passage in Scripture that suggests there comes a time
> when one is not being heard that it is time to “shake the dust off one’s
> feet” and just move ahead into the future. And that is what we have tried to
> do.
>
>
>
> Unfortunately for us now, but not for the OE then, Joe and I withdrew all
> of our personal funds, including my teachers retirement account, when the
> Move 222 was initiated in the late '60s.  This was just before we and
> David McCleskey left to conduct a teaching trek through SEAPAC and later, in
> August, were assigned as faculty for the first ITI in Singapore.  At that
> time we trusted so fully in our corporate mission and willingly gave all
> for it.  Furthermore, we believed that “retirement” was not a category
> that had meaning for our future; we envisioned unfolding engagement in
> ministry into the sunset.
>
>
>
> David, I think our colleagues who made decisions about how to “parcel out”
> the OE funds, did so the best they could, given who they were and what they
> had to work with.  Clearly, they did not hold all the values I,
> personally, would have hoped.  Nor were the outcomes of their decisions
> equitable at all.  I think it would be helpful for all of us to get clear
> about what was the "complex formula" that was used to determine equity, and
> how it could have possibly excluded many who should have benefited, and been
> ensured the care that we all professed to one another would be available.
>
>
>
> I admire that you have had the courage to place this unresolved issue on
> the collegium table, so that the community can hear it, and “sit with it.”
> I trust those who made the stark decisions about calling the Order out of
> being in 1988, clearly without a community consensus, might think about
> “what they might have wrought."
>
>
>
> I am guessing that you, like Joe and me, are the remnants who still wear
> the “ring”, because we have, indeed, never “left” the Order.
>
>
>
> With gratitude and abiding affection,
>
>
>
> Marilyn
>
> On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:58:35 -0600 David Dunn <dmdunn1 at gmail.com> writes:
>
>  On Apr 22, 2009, at 4:41 PM, McCabe, Diann A wrote:
>
> Around the meetings in 1986 and 1988 when OE as a structure was ended, the
> small remaining amounts in order funds were distributed based on a
> complicated formula.
>
>
> It has been one of the great sadnesses of the last 25 years that I have
> somehow not been able to participate in that symbol of membership in the
> order I never left.
>
> How might we symbolize the gift and the blessing of perpetual vows?
>
> David
>
>   ---
> David Dunn
> dmdunn1 at gmail.com
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> Marilyn R. Crocker, Ed.D
> Crocker & Associates, Inc.
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