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1511th Meeting

Hennie Bregliano read a letter from her grandchild, Anne, an
exchange student in London. Adjusting to homesickness and trying to
find her classroom building, she was reduced to tears-a solicitous native
befriended her, put her enroute, and she realized how kind the
Britishers could be.

Jane Stabler was reminded by an article in The Smithsonian
Magazine describing the Kookabura bird of her experience in
Austrailia-they were being entertained at a barbecue when a
Kookabura bird spotted her meat-descended from its tree and
made off with it.

Mary Reading Miller shared an article from Friends Letter by
Marge Steer, comparing Friends House to a quilt. As in a quilt
where each piece is indispensable, so at Friends House-where
there is a miscellaneous assortment of people, the whole requires
careful piecing to create a fine pattern. The result in both
cases is a sense of accomplishment.

Betty Grey read an article about her son, Robert that
appeared in The Student Advocate at The University of North
Carolina at Charlotte. As a professor and editor of The South
Poetry Review, Robert was described as an individualist who
always encouraged artistic freedom in writing. Among his
achievements-he is finishing a novel called The Lizard.

Joy Shotts said the next Museum exhibition would be Victorian
Costumes (1870-1910), and she had some questions answered
concerning The Victorian period. She also described a second-grade
visit to The Meeting House and related some of their questions-
such as, "how deep do the holes have to be in the cemetery?"-
and- "is God buried there?"

Caroline Hussman had discovered the origin of the "blue plate
special"-the low-priced, set meal served on a blue and white plate.
The history of blue and white china pattern originated in China and
includes Delft, Staffordshire, and the Meissen Onion pattern.
Willow ware is probably the best known and undoubtedly the
inspiration for the blue-plate special. Caroline's question-
does anyone know who might buy beef? She also had the
source of the term "to start from scratch." In house racing
the starting point [The handicap time] was scratched in the gravel-hence, the
runners with a handicap started "from scratch."

Elizabeth Ligon read from her favorite book of poetry-
Best English Poems-one by Ernest Henley which closes with
these familiar lines: "It matters not how strait the gate-How
charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate;
I am the Captain of my Soul."