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George Watson: Innovative Quaker Educator George Watson


George Watson married Elizabeth Grill in 1937, and in 1938 they both joined 57th Street Meeting. They had 4 children and also raised 3 orphaned sisters from Germany who had been pen pals. During the War, the Watsons worked with AFSC, George was drafted as a CO in 1945 and after the War began a long career teaching at Roosevelt University in Chicago. Both George and Elizabeth were very active in FWCC. Moving to Long Island they helped found Lloyd Harbor Meeting. In 1980 George retired, and the couple moved to Friends Community in Easton, Mass. They then traveled extensively in the ministry in the U.S. and Canada and Britain. In 1991, they moved to Minneapolis where Elizabeth died in 2006 and George late in 2011


George Watson 2010 207 PP. Paperback $16.95


Guests of My Life Elizabeth Watson GUESTS OF MY LIFEis not one but several books. It is, first and foremost, a spiritual pilgrimage. Elizabeth Watson takes the reader on her transforming journey from deep, almost overwhelming grief over the accidental death of her daughter to an unfolding awareness of the oneness of all life. In her clear, moving and deeply sensitive sharing, Elizabeth Watson offers strong yet tender support for others making similar pilgrimages. To read GUESTS OF MY LIFE is also to become immersed in the lives, the creative process, and the poetry and prose of six great writers. through Elizabeth Watson’s words and selections from their writings, Emily Dickinson, Rainer Maria Rilke, Katherine Mansfield, Rabindranath Tagore, Alan Paton and Walt Whitman, in all their greatness but perhaps more importantly in all their humanness, become guests of the reader’s life, too. Perhaps in its essence GUESTS OF MY LIFE is an invitation. It invites readers to share in life’s suffering… but also in the joy which can emerge from the suffering… in doubt, but also in faith, in struggle but in achivement, too. Ultimately, what the book does, as her guests did for Elizabeth Watson, is bid us live. Quaker Press of FGC 1996 176 PP. Paperback $14.95


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