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Reno Monthly Meeting
Religious Society of Friends
(Quakers)
497
Highland Avenue, Reno, NV 89512-2219
Phone: (775) 329-9400
E-mail: Clerk @ renofriends.org
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Meet the Reno Friends!
2008 Directory (password is required)
Here are a few of the other people you might meet at the Reno Friends Meeting.
Jenny Beatty and Andy Robinson
 Jenny
Beatty was born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin, except for two years
in Brazil as a child and a year in Colombia as a high school exchange
student. She was first introduced to Quakers when her church, the
Community of John XXIII (non-affiliated), joined with Madison Friends
Meeting and two other churches in the Sanctuary Movement. She worked
closely with the refugee family from Guatemala and assisted them in
emigrating to Canada. After graduating from college, she continued as
an advocate for Central American refugees in Albuquerque, New Mexico,
where she worked as a volunteer and then as paid staff at the Resource
Center, now the International Relations Center.
Pursuing her airline pilot career took Jenny to five cities and then to
Reno, where she settled with her partner, Andy Robinson, and their two
dogs. Today she is a pilot for American Airlines, mentors up-and-coming
women pilots, and writes a column for Aviation for Women magazine. An Attender at Reno Friends Meeting since 2005, Jenny helps put together the newsletter.
Andy Robinson is a Certified Public Accountant and works as a Corporate
Controller. Born into a family with roots stretching back to the silver rush at Virginia City, Andy lives in Reno with his
partner Jenny Beatty and their two dogs. He has been attending Reno
Friends Meeting since 2005.
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Jim and Sue Brune
Rebecca Brune and Marina Coffman
Wanda Coyen
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Wanda is our newest member. Here is her biography (password required).
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Katie Dwyer
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Katie
Dwyer’s childhood was spent in the pastor-led Guilford College (NC)
Friends Meeting and then the unprogrammed Virginia Beach (VA) Friends
Meeting. She married Larry Dwyer under the care of Reno (NV) Friends
Meeting in March 1986 and has two daughters born in Grapevine, TX – Lyn in
August 1987 and Lauren in October 1988. From 1992 – 2001, the
family attended Portland (ME) Friends Meeting and returned to Reno
in August 2001. She has a BS in Elementary Education from Old Dominion University,
Norfolk, VA and an MBA from University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA and
currently works in Truckee Meadows Community College’s Budget Office.
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Dawn Einwalter and Elliott Parker, Reuben and Maya
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Dawn Einwalter is a landscape designer,
planner, anthropologist, hiker, and general roustabout who finds
nature both a challenge and an ongoing source of inspiration. She got her Ph.D. in cultural
anthropology from the University of Washington and her B.A. in
landscape architecture from the University of California in Davis, and
currently works for EDAW in Sacramento. She is married to Elliott
Parker (below), and is mother to Reuben (shown at left) and Maya (below left). Read her biography (password required).
 Elliott
Parker is the webmaster for the Reno Friends meeting, but his day job
is being
a Professor of Economics at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he
maintains his own website and
teaches courses in comparative economics, international trade,
international monetary relations, and microeconomics. He has
been
an occasional Attender of the Reno Friends Meeting since 1998, has led discussions
on globalization and poverty for the Meeting, and loves to work as an occasional
staff member for children's summer camp programs at the
Mendocino
Sufi Camp. His wife, Dawn Einwalter, has
been a Member of the Reno Friends Meeting for at least a dozen years.
Reuben and Maya are the light
and
focus of his life, and regular participants in First Day School
programs.
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Betsy Fadali
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Betsy is co-Clerk of the Reno Friends meeting, starting July 2008.
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Patsy Gehr
 Patsy was the Clerk of Reno Friends Meeting in 2007, and you can read her biography (password required). She had
a long and winding spiritual journey before joining the Friends in
2003. She first became interested in the Friends years ago
through reading Quaker materials while participating in an interfaith
prayer group with Quaker women. In 1986, she became part of Sierra
Interfaith Action for Peace (SIAP), a Reno affiliate of the Fellowship
of Reconciliation. In its work for peace with justice, SIAP
stands for inclusiveness and affirms the power of Love to overcome
hate, active nonviolence as the path to peace, belief in the
possibility to end all war, the sacredness of every individual, and the
power of faith, religious or other, for healing and reconciliation.
Some of SIAP's most recent projects are: 1) weekly peace
presence vigils at the Federal Building since October, 2001; 2)
spreading the message that "Peace Begins With Respect for oneself, for
others, for all creation" on billboards, bumper strips, tote bags,
banners and free book covers written in seven languages; 3)
labyrinth prayer walks in commemoration of the U.N. International Day
of Prayer and the Torture Abolition and Survivors Support
Coalition; 4) Memorial Day readings of the names of military
personnel who died in our current War on Iraq; 5) sponsoring
Peace Summits to bring together local groups and individuals with
similar goals. Plans are underway to offer adults training in
active nonviolence, using Pace e Bene's Engage materials. Sierra
Interfaith meets on the second Tuesday each month, 5:30 pm, at Reno
Friends Meeting House. |
Dorothy Goetz
Beatrice Hamilton
Dawn Hammond
John and Andrew Hervey, Melanie Scott
Neil Hendricks
Erin Higgs
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Erin is a student at UNR who provides childcare at our First Day School. |
Wim Houwink
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Wim
is a retired economics professor at UNR and a regular attender, andhe
is currently a member of the Santa Rosa Redwood Friends meeting.
Before coming to the United States, Wim was a member of the Dutch
underground resistance and a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp.
Read his biography. |
Steve Jackson
J.J. Lee and Mary Minten
Beth McCleary, Shannon and Brendan Fagen
Tom McCormack
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Tom
McCormack is an ethnic diversity specialist who empowers teachers and
youth with learning modalities based on ethnic cultural tools. See his
website at http://www.storymaster.us.
Since 1988 organizations have hired him as a keynote speaker,
in-service presenter, symposium/forum facilitator, trainer, and
education curriculum developer. He attended Indiana Univ., Penn State
Univ., and Portland Community College, and is an active member of
the National Storytelling Network and Storytelling International.
Tom’s son (Inipi Sky) is a registered tribal member of the
Bigstone-Cree Nation from Alberta, Canada. As an education specialist,
one of Tom’s goals is to see ethnic cultural tools used to awaken
the will to learn in youth. And influence the U.S. and State Dept
of Ed’s to revise their assessment criteria to include assessing
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Bill Morris
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Bill
is a Philadelphia Birthright Quaker, a Conscientious Objector, and a
former English teacher at
American River College in Sacramento. Bill moved around a bit
when he was younger. Prior to transferring his membership to
Reno, he was a member of the Philadelphia junior high yearly meeting,
the Yellow Springs meeting on the Antioch College campus in Ohio, the
Bloomington (Indiana) Friends Meeting, the San Diego Meeting, and the
Sacramento Meeting. He lives in Portola with
his wife Toni. Read his biography.
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Caroline Musselman
Shane Piccinini
Chris Radford-Price and Piers, Lindsey and India
Erin Reed
Paul and Theresa Rinaldi
Harbert Rice
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Harbert Rice is a former clerk of the meeting, who is deeply involved in AVP. |
Kathleen Sensenig and Lauren
Cheri and Doug Smith
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Cheri
Smith was born in Boulder, grew up in Elko, and graduated from Montana
State University in Bozeman. She has been a vibrant force in the
meeting for many years. She lives in Carson City with her husband
Doug Smith. They have two sons. Corbin lives and teaches in
Doha, Qatar. Ivan just married Janelle a few months ago and they
live in Spokane with her five year old son, Cooper. Read her biography.
Doug
Smith is co-Clerk of the Reno Friends Meeting through June 2008. He was born in Kalispell, Montana, and met Cheri at
Montana
State University in Bozeman, he studied Philosophy, Math, Sanskrit, and
Chinese, and first learned about non-Christian religions. He received a
Master’s degree in Oriental Studies at the University of Arizona
in Tucson, an MBA in Finance from Denver University, and an M.S. in Economics at the University of Nevada, Reno. He
teaches risk management nationwide, and he also teaches K-12 teachers
at UNR how to teach economics. Read his biography. |
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