South Park Unitarian Universalist Fellowship

South Park Unitarian Universalist Fellowship

Volume 53, No. 4, Summer 1

Sunday June 30Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin HoodJune 27-July 21

Sunday August 4

South PacificAugust 1-25

Monday September 2Potluck &Croquet @ the Cordell Estate TBA

Friday-Sunday August 16-18Annual SPUUF Campout

@ Seitz property outside of Fossil, Oregon

SundaySeptember 8 Queens Girl in the World

September 5-29

Sunday September 15Gathering Inwith Marti Mendenhall

@ McLean House10:30am

Volume 53, No. 4, Summer Edited by Karol Miller & friends

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Save the Date!The Annual Cluster Picnic―yum, yum!

Our annual Mt. Hood Cluster summer picnic will be held on SUNDAY, JULY 21 starting at 3:00 PM at the Marina Park on the waterfront in Hood River. Details will be coming out later. But in the meanwhile, mark your calendars. It will be a lovely day of fun, sun, and fellowship.

Photo of Balsam Root at Memaloose Hills, Ervin Miller

S E Q U O I A C L U B


Our Year in Reviewby Karol & Ervin Miller

On the first day of school in the fall, we always had to write an essay on what we did that summer. Maybe some of you had to do that too. It always seemed rather torturous to me, first to give up the freedom of summer, then to have to write about it. Nevertheless, Ervin and I thought it might be interesting to look back on all we did as a fellowship this last year, beginning with last summer.

Summer 2018• CRT’s Sense and Sensibility, Annie

& Ripcord with potlucks afterwards at Marty Wallauer’s.

• Campout at Seitz property in eastern Oregon.

• Labor Day Croquet Tournament at the Cordell’s.

September • Gathering in: Karol & Ervin

Miller and Marti Mendenhall led a program which included

greeting the four directions, poetry and our water ceremony.

October • Potluck: Todd Weedman, Chief

Rabban of Al Kader Shriners, spoke on the history and mission of the Shriner organization.

• Service: Hannah Berkowitz led and Professor Marlene Loisdotter spoke on The Response of Mean and Women to my Life in Feminism.

November • Thanksgiving Potluck: Our

traditional Thanksgiving Potluck with stories and conversation, turkey compliments of Don Seitz.

• Service: Dr James Moore, Pacific University and the Post-Election Post-Mortem. Jerry led.

December • Green’s Gathering at Joan’s Barn.

Corn Chowder compliments of Don Seitz.

• Service: Don Seitz led and Will Hornyak spoke on Winter Light: Stories for Tending the Inner Fire.

• December 23: The Clapp Family Christmas Sing!

January • Potluck: The Pulp Stage: Live

storytelling.

• Service: Presentation by 211info. Karol & Ervin led.

February • Potluck: HOPE - Help Other

People Eat• Service: The Folly of Frack, led by

Jerry Magee.

March • Potluck: Author Steve Arndt did

a presentation on Oregon Ghost Towns.

• Service: Feral Abbasi-Ghnaim did a presentation on Palestinian embroidery

April • Potluck: Author Beatriz Dujovne

spoke on the Tango!• Service: In Celebration of Trees

with Jerry Magee and Rick Reynolds lay leading. Special guest Alli Magee led a breathing exercise.

May • Potluck: Poet Tom Hogan • Gathering Out Service: Jerry

Magee led a service of sharing poetry.

Possible Speakers for next year:

ALIZA KAPLAN• Lewis & Clark Professor of

Lawyering, Director of the



Criminal Justice Reform Clinic & Co-founder of the Oregon Innocence Project

• Known for popularizing the argument that Oregon's non-unanimous jury verdicts have their roots in racism

ALLI MAGEE• Spiritual

ANDREW STANBRIDGE• An Oregon based photographer

who concentrates on global humanitarian, conflict and environmental stories.

BILL BRIARE• SpiritualELIZABETH ORR & WILLIAM ORR• Authors of “An Environmental

History of the Willamette Valley.• William Orr is Professor

Emeritus @ University of Oregon in the Earth Sciences Department.

FILM SUGGESTION• Thanksgiving Potluck Service

(Native American Heritage Month)

• Documentary Film: 100 Years: One Woman's Fight for Justice

• About the Cobell Lawsuit that found several Interior Secretaries in Contempt of Court

GENEALOGICAL FORUM OF OREGON• The GFO exists to promote

genealogy and to provide genealogical education, to preserve and provide genealogical and historical resources, and to compile and publish within the genealogical community.

HOLLI WRONSKI• Aging Services Advisory Council

Liaison, Clackamas County Social Services

• She can do a presentation on the Clackamas County Gatekeeper Program which is designed to help at-risk older adults and persons with disabilities learn about resources and support that can help them stay as independent and healthy as possible.

ISRAEL PASTRANA• PCC Professor of History• Recently spoke in Lake Oswego

regarding the WW2 era guest worker program popularly known as the “Bracero Program” which responded to war time labor shortages in agriculture.

KATHRYN RICHER• SpiritualTHE LIVING ROOM (TLR)• Established in 2009, The Living

Room (TLR) works to improve life for LGBTQ+ youth ages 14 to 20 in Clackamas County.

MARLENE LOISDOTTER• Professor of Women’s Studies• June would like her to do a

presentation on “The Black Madonna.”

MARTI MENDENHALL"

• Has volunteered to led our Gathering In, Christmas and Gathering Out services.

MAY LOW• Manager of legal services at

IRCO (Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization)

• They operate the IRCO Building New Communities, Asian Family Center and Africa House

MERCY CORP.• Mercy Corps is a global team of

humanitarians who partner with communities, corporations and governments to transform lives around the world.

ORALEE STILES HAMILTON• Interfaith Spiritual Center• She has a deep capacity for

offering acceptance, compassion and openness to the Divine to those who come to her for spiritual direction, rituals, and emotional grief support.

PAT RUMER• Author of Choices: Death, Life

and Migration, is a social justice activist with fifty years’ experience focused on Guatemala and immigration issues in the United States. Her book shares intimate stories of the people and places that have affected her justice journey. One reader has said, “She lifts up the voices of people she has encountered along her way.”

PULP STAGE/MATT HAYNES• Live storytelling



RESPOND TO RACISM• Respond to Racism is a

neighborhood effort to interrupt racism in Lake Oswego, Oregon.

• Based on the Anti-Defamation League’s Pyramid of Hate, they show how bias behaviors can become normalized.

REV. PATTI POMERANTZ• Spiritual Director & Eastrose

Fellowship Unitarian Universalist Minister

• A love of service, an appreciation of story, an insatiable curiosity with a dose of skepticism, an offbeat sense of humor, and a drive to build connections where there appear to be none – all in the name of creating a more peaceful world.

RICHARD CLUCAS• PSU political science professor &

co-author of a paper titled “The Politics of One Oregon: The

Causes, Consequences and Prospects of Overcoming the Rural-Urban Divide”

RON SILVER• Is scheduled for our 2020

February McLean House Service (Black History Month)

• Silver teaches throughout the Pacific Northwest on the history of the Civil Rights Movement to students, teachers and Bar Associations. For the past 10 years he has led middle and high school students on Civil Rights history tours in Mississippi and Alabama.

SALLIE TISDALE• Author of Advice for Future

Corpses: A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying

SHEILA HAMILTON• Author of All The Things We

Never Knew, about her husband’s

struggles with mental illness and his eventual suicide

SUSAN DUSSAULT • Legal advocate, educator (Lewis

& Clark Law School) and scholar.• Recently spoke in Lake Oswego

on immigration and citizenship issues

• Past Director of the Human rights & Immigration Clinic @ Willamette University College of Law.

STEVE ARNDT• Author of Roads Less Traveled in

Northwest OregonWILL HORNYAK• Storyteller

The SPUUF Board welcomes your comments and input. Our next meeting is scheduled for June 20, 2019, 3 pm at the Seitz house.

Exposing the PastMuseum of the Oregon Territory Exhibit

The Museum of the Oregon Territory’s current exhibit, Exposing the Past, is now open through the end of the year. Featuring a photography timeline highlighting Oregon City Photographers from 1850-1920, including biographies and pictures. There is also a “Then & Now” exhibit showcasing vintage Oregon City views compared to recreations today. A team of volunteers—including Karol Miller—put the exhibit together. The Museum is open Wednesday through Saturday, 10:30am to 4:30pm. Admission is $7 for Seniors (65+), $8 for Adults, $5 for Ages 5-17. Karol volunteers in the research library on Wednesdays and would be happy to lead a private tour of the exhibit and/or the library.


Instructions on Not Giving Up

Ada Limón, 1976

More than the fuchsia funnels breaking outof the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor’salmost obscene display of cherry limbs shovingtheir cotton candy-colored blossoms to the slatesky of Spring rains, it’s the greening of the treesthat really gets to me. When all the shock of whiteand taffy, the world’s baubles and trinkets, leavethe pavement strewn with the confetti of aftermath,the leaves come. Patient, plodding, a green skingrowing over whatever winter did to us, a returnto the strange idea of continuous living despitethe mess of us, the hurt, the empty. Fine then,I’ll take it, the tree seems to say, a new slick leafunfurling like a fist to an open palm, I’ll take it all.

Putting in the SeedRobert Frost, 1874 - 1963

You come to fetch me from my work to-night When supper’s on the table, and we’ll see If I can leave off burying the white Soft petals fallen from the apple tree. (Soft petals, yes, but not so barren quite, Mingled with these, smooth bean and wrinkled pea;) And go along with you ere you lose sight Of what you came for and become like me, Slave to a springtime passion for the earth. How Love burns through the Putting in the Seed On through the watching for that early birth When, just as the soil tarnishes with weed, The sturdy seedling with arched body comes Shouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs.

Plant Emerging from Seed, photo by ansonsaw

Cherry Blossoms in Spring, photo by Ervin Miller



The Folly of FRACK

Thank you to Bob Cordell for suggesting The Folly of FRACK group. Thank you to Hannah for opening up the McLean House at 8:30am to accommodate the group. And thank you to Jerry for leading a wonderful service!

Joan & SOLVE

A big THANK YOU to Joan for representing South Park with the Cluster!

Only that day dawns of which we are aware.

H. D. Thoreau


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In Celebration of Trees


Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort, of feeling safe with a person. Having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words; but to pour all out, just as they are - chaff and grain together. Knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them; keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away." " " " " " " " " " " - Anonymous

Meet Joan’s Granddaughter!

Ella Rose SanfordApril 29, 1019 at 12:05am6lbs 11oz



by Stan Jewett

Rick and Maxine Lathrop of First Church Portland founded Global Service Corps 25 years ago, and have directed it ever since. GSC has provided service-learning programs in seven developing countries, including the past 11 years in Cambodia.

You're invited to join the Lathrops in Cambodia to learn about

Cambodia's culture and history, and to participate in a service project. Participants will gain insight about the ongoing effects of the Khmer Rouge genocide in the 1970’s. Learn why GSC has been working in Cambodia over the past ten years and how your participation can make a difference.

The two-week program runs from September 8–22. The trip will

include lectures and visits to historical sites, cultural activities, a nine-day service-learning experience, and a final weekend in Siem Reap visiting Angkor Wat and other sites.

For further info contact the Lathrops directly at 503-954-1659 or at: [email protected].

Have You Ever Wanted to Travel to Cambodia?

“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are

yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your

love and affection.”- Buddha

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“Geezers for ______________”by Barbara Cady

Karol asked if I would write a little about what's going on in my life these days, since my name came up at the Annual Meeting. Apparently it was an innocent remark because she didn’t ask me to repudiate anything. I will try.

Dave and I retired to Beaverton about fourteen years ago. Amazing how the years pile up. Well, “Growing old ain’t for sissies,” as Bette Davis famously said, and we found that to be true. I resolved though when I was young, never to get old and talk about rheumatism and gall bladders and such. So, I’m 90 years old now and hanging in there! I feel very lucky to be in my own house, with help as needed and my son and his family close by. While I don’t get out a lot, they do, and they make my life more interesting.

My son keeps saying he’s happy my mind isn’t gone (he puts it more nicely). I think it’s because of politics! Someone said, we live in such interesting times and I can’t help but follow them.


I’ve learned that other people my age have determined that they too will stick around until our national problem is cleared up. Maybe we could organize a political group. What would we call it? “Geezers for ________“. Welcome to all suggestions. Gerontologists could have it wrong. Maybe it isn’t puzzles and quiet days that keep a person sharp.

I do miss you SPUUFers. I might forget the program topics, or the speakers, or the songs but always will remember just being there with my friends in South Park. And, It’s good to see you at the CCC plays each year!

Upper Right: Barbara as toddlerLower Left: Barbara’s 90th Birthday celebration

“Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.” Samuel Ullman



Events & ServicesSunday, June 30 Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood. The Northwest premiere! A wild adventure about a man with a generous heart and a desire to save his country from a usurped throne and dim-witted evil King, Ludwig's Robin Hood is full of charm and delightful vigilantes fighting for the rights of Sherwood Forest’s citizens. It's an upbeat, zany comedy, much like Clackamas Rep's 2016 smash hit Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (also from Ken Ludwig). June 27 - July 21

Sunday, August 4South Pacific. An immediate Broadway hit in 1949, South Pacific remains one of the most popular musicals ever written. Transport yourself to an island of beauty and intrigue with Clackamas Rep’s production of this American classic and enjoy hits like “Some Enchanted Evening,” “This Nearly Was Mine,” “Younger Than Springtime,” “There’s Nothing Like a Dame,” “Bali Hai,” and “I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Out of My Hair."

Friday - Sunday, August 16-18 @ Seitz Property outside Fossil, OregonSPUUF Annual Campout at the Seitz property outside of Fossil, Oregon in scenic Service Creek. Details to follow.

Monday, September 2, 10:30am @ the Cordell EstateOur Annual Labor Day Potluck and Croquet competition. Details to follow.

Sunday, September 8Queens Girl in the World. The West Coast premiere! Queens Girl in the World, the hit play of the 2015 Women’s Voices Theater Festival in Washington, D.C., is a charming, semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story about a young black girl in the 60s. This one-woman show includes not just our heroine, the engaging Jacqueline Marie Butler, but 12 more characters including her Caribbean father, imperious mother, girlfriends and boyfriends, as she moves from the safety of her sheltered Queens neighborhood to a new school in Greenwich Village. There, where she is one of only four black students and where race suddenly matters, she begins to wonder where she belongs in the world.

Sunday, September 15, 10:30am @ McLean HouseGathering In. Mari Mendenhall will lead us into the new worship year. Please bring some water from your summer travels and stories to share. Gather at 10:30 with worship starting at 10:45am.



South Park BoardDon Seitz, PresidentBob Cordell, Vice President & Asst TreasurerVirginia Seitz, TreasurerKarol Miller, SecretaryJerry MageeHannah Berkowitz

Next Board meeting 3pm June 20 @ the Seitz’s House, open to all.

South Park Sunday ServicesMcLean House5350 River StreetWest Linn, OR 97068

South Park Mailing AddressPO Box 178West Linn, OR 97068

Upcoming Birthdays

June11: Jonathan Sanford26: Elliott Seitz 27: Susan Lyden

July 4: Anthony Seitz10: Marty Wallauer12: Benjamin Sanford

August13: Bob Cordell14: Hannah Berkowitz20: Ervin Miller23: Shane Bell30: Virginia Seitz

Newsletter [email protected] Linn, OR 97068

inSpirit UU Book and Gift StoreIf I Can Cook/You Know God Can

African American Food Memories, Meditations, and Recipes. An expanded edition of a celebrated book that travels throughout the African diaspora to savor the timeless joy of black cuisine and culture. www.uuabookstore.org

June is interested in borrowing garage sale tables. If you have some, please give her call or drop an email.

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