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

Mon Aug 8 17:39:45 EDT 2011

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-----Original Message-----
From: James Wiegel <jfwiegel at yahoo.com>
To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe at wedgeblade.net>
Sent: Mon, Aug 8, 2011 1:36 pm
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Development of RS-1

Hmmm,  Interesting.  So, who is this "Jim Baumbach" . . .

Jim Wiegel

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--- On Mon, 8/8/11, David Walters <walters at alaweb.com> wrote:

From: David Walters <walters at alaweb.com>
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Development of RS-1
To: "Order Ecumenical Community" <oe at wedgeblade.net>
Date: Monday, August 8, 2011, 1:33 PM

Somewhere there is a box that got lost in one of my many moving trips. In it was my Birth Certificate and my certificate of graduation from the Academy of the Institute of Cultural Affairs, a division of the Ecumenical Institute: Chicago,  signed by its' Dean, Joe Mathews and its Chairman David Woods. I guess that put me as being some what less believable than the President. However, If I could bring myself to expose the proper right-wing ideology I am sure Fox News could authenticate me!

-David Walters

--- wtw0bl at new.rr.com wrote:

From: Jim Baumbach <wtw0bl at new.rr.com>
To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe at wedgeblade.net>
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Development of RS-1
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:55:56 -0500

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 wrote:

From: "Rod Rippel" <rodrippel at cox.net>
To: "Order Ecumenical Community" <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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