Memories of the Quaker Past: Stories of Thirty-Seven Senior Quakers

The book consists of excerpts from interviews of senior members

of State College Friends Meeting. The narrators who lived

through the Great Depression tell of their difficult childhoodand yet in

most cases one they regarded as happy. Some of the conscientious objectors

during WWII tell of life in CPS camps; others speak of using nonviolent

methods with mental patients, while still others relate the story of the human

guinea experiments some of them participated in.

Of those who did relief work after the war overseas, probably the

most exciting tales are told by the four who worked with the Friends

Ambulance Unit in China. They happened to be located close to where the

Nationalists and the Communists were fighting.