[Oe List ...] Development of RS-1

Mon Aug 8 13:55:56 EDT 2011

OK David we're almost convinced you say who you are but now we require a 
"full birth certificate" and definite proof that you were not born in 
Kenya and that you are a true American citizen!!!

Jim Baumbach

On 8/8/2011 11:32 AM, David Walters wrote:
> I am David Walters and I was born in Mobile, AL  and went to high 
> school with Frank Powell where Joe Thomas and  George West     had 
> already graduated. I took a PLC in the spring of '70 because Basil 
> Sharp said I would get a lot out of it. He told me to go by the 
> Atlanta House and pick up a brochure. Jack Barringer answered the door 
> and gave me one. I wasn't there hardly there 3 minutes. At the time I 
> was living in  a small town in south Georgia. Somehow he got me phone 
> number and called every other day or so for 3 weeks. So I went. 
> Basil's wife Marie sat across the table from me.  A young guy named 
> Jim Troxel and another tall lanky fellow named Rick Loudermilk just 
> blew me away. My life was transformed tho earthly as before. 2 weeks 
> later I went to an RS1 and moved into the Atlanta House on Sunday 
> night after it was over.
> Baringer decided I needed to come to Chicago were he had been for 
> several weeks to something called a Summer Research Assembly. I took a 
> flight out of Atlanta. He met me at O'Hare and took me on a wild ride 
> thru downtown Chicago and out an expressway to a strange place on the 
> westside at 1 o'clock in the morning. After I had been the a day or so 
> I was put on a team that was working on covert a gym into what would 
> be a week later the Great Hall of the Ecumenical Institute. One of the 
> guys I worked with was Jim Wiegel.
> Then I went to the fifth session of the Global Academy for Global 
> Churchmen where one of my teachers was wild guy mamed Charles Alan 
> Lingo. I had lived across the hall from him few weeks earlier and he 
> had a beautiful young daughter. Gene Marshall lectured in surgical 
> gloves becuase he was allergic to chalk. Roger and Mimi Shinnn were 
> there. Besides all the lectures and classes, I learned a lot around 
> the edges from Harold Williams.
> I worked the next summer of the Social Processes. It is interesting 
> that by the luck of the draw, cosmic alignment of whatever, I spent 
> both summers in Room A. During the period after the suumer progam  we 
> had a Order Council and were also in Room A. We ran out of seats. I 
> was sitting on the foor against the back wall next to David Scott. The 
> guy up talking in the front of the room was droning on and on when 
> David Scott groaned rather loudly. His wife was sitting on ther other 
> side of him and elbowed him  in the ribs and told him "someday that 
> guy may be the only collegue you have. Ssssh!"
> After that I wound up working with my father for six years were I now 
> live in Andalusia. Itook off for three yearsin the early part of  
> '78 and helped finish Town Meetings in Mississippi, Louisianna, Aand 
> Arkansas. Then I spent 2 years working on the Gibson HDP
> Speaking of Gibson, I understand that there is some film that was shot 
> in Gibson but never edited in the Archives at Kemper. Who could assign 
> Marshall to finish this and put out a CD?
> To answer the question how I know so much about the early days. Well 
> my granfather told early on that if I listened more and talked less I 
> would learn more. During the 70s at summer programs, council meetings, 
> etc. I tended to talk to folks around the edges and ask a lot of 
> questions. I am also one of those hardheaded Presbyterians like Joe 
> Slicker who always going to figure things out. Another fact is that I 
> google a lot.
>
> -David Walters
>
> --- clingojr at aol.com wrote:
>
> From: Al Lingo <clingojr at aol.com>
> To: oe at wedgeblade.net
> Cc: dwarren at indiana.edu
> Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Development of RS-1
> Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 08:54:32 -0400 (EDT)
>
> Dear David Walters,
>
> Where are you?
> I was just speaking on skype with Paul Schrijnen who asked me, 'who is 
> David Walters?'
> I couldn't tell him, what you 'looked' like or how old you are, or 
> what you did with the order, or anything very much when he asked.
> So, here I am, hanging out, asking you for an introduction.  My 
> apologies to you for my forgotten remembrances.
> Your sharings on the list serve have been meaningful to me, and I 
> assume to several others.  What's to know about you?
>
> It was pleasant to see you refer to the May1962 Time Magazine article 
> on the CFLC just after its faculty had exploded.
> Doc Wagener captured the articulation of our self-understanding well 
> for the Time writer.
>
> The answer to your 'mansion' question is: The Wooten Mansion. It 
> served as the first women's residence of the CFLC.
> Later, it was more well known nationally as the LAOS HOUSE, where PLCs 
> and RS-1s and other curricula were presented and developed.  It's very 
> special dining room was not only the lecture hall for these courses, 
> but was the elegant space where the House Church Common Meal service 
> was celebrated, studied, and experimented with.
> In 1991 a 'retired from Cornell' Jack Lewis summoned a reunion of 40 
> plus former members of the CFLC for two days in that space.  It was 
> there that he declared his common sense of his having been and, still 
> being, 'a Christian heretic'.  There, also, he chose to share his 
> profound admiration for the faith and life of the Dali Lama as a 
> symbol of our faith and life continuity.
>
> It will be good to hear from you again.
> Lurking for your reply,
> Al Lingo in Decatur GA.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Walters <walters at alaweb.com>
> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe at wedgeblade.net>
> Sent: Mon, Aug 8, 2011 12:48 am
> Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Development of RS-1
>
> Bishop Jim gives a better explaination in Brother Joe.
> Here is a link ti a Time artticle from 1962 about the Cristian Faith 
> and Life Community. Page 2 of the article has some interesting quotes. 
> http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,827348-2,00.html
> Speaking of CFLC do any remember the building where it was located. 
> This article describes a place called Mansion on the Hill that notes 
> the CLFC bought it in 1953 and used it for its student dormitory. 
> http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,827348-2,00.html
>
> -David Walters
>
> --- rodrippel at cox.net <mailto:rodrippel at cox.net> wrote:
>
> From: "Rod Rippel" <rodrippel at cox.net <mailto:rodrippel at cox.net>>
> To: "Order Ecumenical Community" <oe at wedgeblade.net 
> <mailto:oe at wedgeblade.net>>
> Subject: [Oe List ...] Development of RS-1
> Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2011 17:48:16 -0700
>
> What's the history of development of RS-1 -content, structure and 
> choreography?
> Did it begin with CFLC?  RR
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