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2010-2019
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| 2010 Spring | | Meeting for Business | ILYM Planning; donation to Illinois Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty; support for ministry by Maurine Pyle
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2000-2009
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| 2009 Fall | Dubois | Meeting for Business | Ad hoc committee on nurturing the quarterly; name change of Southern Illinois Meeting; ILYM planning; meeting reports
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| | | Treasurer's Report | Income and expenses, 4/2009-9/2009
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| 2009 Spring | Menno Haven | Meeting for Business | Petition on Tamms "supermax" prison; Springfield WG moved to Urbana-Champaign planning group
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| | | Treasurer's Report | Income and expenses, 10/2008-3/2009
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| 2008 Fall | DuBois | Meeting for Business | Site planning for ILYM 2009; website approved, website committee laid down, position of webservant set up
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| 2008 Spring | Menno Haven | Meeting for Business | Green burial committee laid down; communication encouraged between BRQ planners and local First Day School committees
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| 2007 Fall | DuBois | Meeting for Business | Report on BRQ planning; website committee established
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| | | Treasurers Report | Income and expenses, 4-8/2007
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| 2007 Spring | Menno Haven | Meeting for Business | Support for Amos family work in Kenya; green burial committee continued
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| | | Treasurer's Report | Income and expenses, 9/2006-3/2007
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| 2006 Fall | Brim Shire | Meeting for Business | Proposal for worship and ministry committee set aside; system for BRQ planning to be studied; affiliation of Southern Illinois Meeting with the Illinois Coalition for Peace and Justice
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| | | ILYM Planning | Food and program planning for ILYM 2007
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| | | Treasurer's Report | Income and expenses, 4-9/2006
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| 2006 Spring | Cilca | Meeting for Business | Green burial committee established; support for Right Sharing of World Resources; proposal for worship and ministry committee
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| | | ILYM planning | Site planning for ILYM 2006
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| 2005 Fall | DuBois | Meeting for Business | Letter of concern to Bloomington-Normal and Peoria-Galesburg Meetings; appointment cycle; anti-nuclear minute; support for Religious Freedom Tax Fund Bill; possibility of revising ILYM planning process
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| | | ILYM Planning | Site planning for ILYM 2006
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| 2005 Spring | Urbana | Meeting for Business | Support for Department of Peace proposal, Project Lakota, travel to World Gathering of Young Friends
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| | | ILYM Planning | F.U.N. planning for ILYM 2005
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| 2004 Fall | DuBois | Meeting for Business | Decatur MM reported laid down; recommendation that ILYM partner with Lugari YM; Nominating Committee released from responsibility to inform nominees of BRQ participation in the Campaign of Conscience for the Iraqi People; support for Friends Peace Teams/African Great Lakes Initiative
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| | | Treasurer's Report | Income and expenses, 4-9/2004
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| | | ILYM Planning | F.U.N. planning for ILYM 2005
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| 2004 Spring | Cilca | Meeting for Business | Heartland WG reported laid down; support for Project Lakota
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| | | Treasurer's Report | Income and expenses, 9/2003-4/2004
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| 2003 Fall | DuBois | Meeting for Business | Float trip; Project Lakota
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| | | ILYM Planning | Program planning for ILYM 2004
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| 2003 Spring | Urbana | Meeting for Business | Peace minute; promoting BRQ
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| | | Treasurer's Report | Income and expenses, 9/2002-4/2003
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| 2002 Fall | DuBois | Meeting for Business | Proposal to make float trip an official BRQ event; role and function of the quarterly meeting; support for AFSC and FCNL
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| 2002 Spring | Cilca | Meeting for Business | Schedule and location of BRQ; support for the Campaign of Conscience for the Iraqi People, Project Lakota; F.U.N. planning for ILYM 2002; proposal to make the float trip an official BRQ event; recommendation that ILYM establish a Peace and Conscientious Objection Committee
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| 2001 Fall | Cilca | Meeting for Business | Archival of records; scheduling of BRQ; development of materials to aid in planning BRQ
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| | | Treasurers Report | Income and expenses, 4-9/2001
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| 2001 Spring | DuBois | Meeting for Business | Support for Project Lakota; BRQ planning; Planning Support Group established
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| | | Treasurer's Report | Income and expenses, 9/2000-4/2001
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| 2000 Fall | Cilca | Meeting for Business | Stimulating interest in BRQ; retention of 2-year terms for clerk, recording clerk & treasurer; nominating procedures document; scheduling to avoid Missouri Valley Conference
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| | | Treasurer's Report | Income and expenses, 4-9/2000
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| 2000 Spring | DuBois | Meeting for Business | Proposal of 3-year staggered terms for clerk, recording clerk & treasurer; communication among meetings on peace and social concerns; support for AFSC Campaign of Conscience for the Iraqi People
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1990-1999
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| 1999 Fall | Riverview | Meeting for Business | Support for FCNL
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| | | Treasurer's report | Income & expenses, April-Sept. 1999
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| 1999 Spring | DuBois | Meeting for Business | F.U.N. planning for ILYM 1999; minute of affirmation and welcome adopted
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| 1998 Fall | Cilca | Meeting for Business | Contact among Friends; F.U.N. planning for ILYM 1999; role of QM in preparing business for YM; minute of affirmation and welcome proposed
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| | | Treasurer's Report | Income and expenses, 3-9/1998
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| 1998 Spring | DuBois | Meeting for Business | Minuting in the face of the meeting; Food and program planning for ILYM 1998; letter to unrepresented meetings
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| 1997 Fall | Cilca | Meeting for Business | Request for donations from monthly meetings; records of Friends Hill MM; support for Friends Peace Teams; Decatur temporarily grouped with Urbana-Champaign for BRQ planning
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| 1997 Spring | DuBois | Meeting for Business | Possibility of a BRQ Peace and Social Justice Committee; cost of meeting at DuBois; Friends Hill MM laid down, oversight committee appointed to handle details; donation to ILYM Field Secretary Fund
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| 1996 Fall | Cilca | Meeting for Business | Thanks to Clear Creek MM for improvements to meetinghouse; contribution to ILYM Field Secretary Fund; cost of meeting at DuBois, committee appointed to investigate alternatives; ILYM Listening Project; site planning for ILYM 1997; minute on world hunger
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| 1996 Spring | DuBois | Meeting for Business | Costs and attendance; support for RSWR; discussion of same-sex marriage; scheduling
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| 1995 Fall | Cilca | Meeting for Business | Minutes from this session have not been located. If you have a copy or know where one is, please contact Peter Lasersohn, 
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| 1995 Spring | DuBois | Meeting for Business | Minutes from this session have not been located. If you have a copy or know where one is, please contact Peter Lasersohn,
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| 1994 Fall | Cilca | Meeting for Business | Delivery of medical supplies to orphans in Romania; food/program planning for ILYM 1995; written State of Society Reports
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| 1994 Spring | DuBois | Meeting for Business | States of society; planning for Fall quarterly; Friends Insurance Group
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| 1993 Fall | Cilca | Meeting for Business | Scheduling; separation of Heartland WG from Bloomington-Normal MM; draft proposal on recognition of worship groups to be sent to ILYM Faith and Practice Committee
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| 1993 Summer | | Treasurers Report | This report, covering the period from the establishment of the meeting account at Farmers State Bank to 7/15/1993, appears to have been sent to monthly meetings between sessions of BRQ
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| 1993 Spring | DuBois | Meeting for Business | Separation of Hearland WG from Bloomington-Normal MM; draft procedure for recognition of worship groups; requested contributions from MMs of $5/adult resident member
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| 1992 Fall | Cilca | Meeting for Business | Separation of Heartland WG from Bloomington-Normal MM, letter to both groups; authorization to sign checks on new bank account
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| 1992 Spring | DuBois | Meeting for Business | Establishment of the position of treasurer, and of BRQ bank account
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| 1991 Fall | Cilca | Meeting for Business | State of Society Reports; purchase of Columbia Meetinghouse
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| 1991 Spring | DuBois | Meeting for Business | Success of retreat format for meetings; program planning for ILYM 1991; report on AFSC refusal to verify employee citizenship; report on issues facing ILYM
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| 1990 Fall | East Bay | Meeting for Business | State of Society Reports; program planning for ILYM 1991
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| 1990 Spring | Rock Hill | Meeting for Business | Method for nominating Clerk of ILYM; support for march on Washington in support of children in need; F.U.N. planning for ILYM 1990; decision not to pursue dividing BRQ into two quarterly meetings
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1980-1989
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| 1989 Fall | Urbana | Meeting for Business | Letter to Southern Illinois Meeting, proposals to divide, lay down, or reorganize BRQ
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| | | ILYM planning | F.U.N. planning for ILYM 1990
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| 1989 Spring | Rock Hill | Meeting for Business | Proposal to divide BRQ into two quarterly meetings
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| | | Division Proposal Materials | Statements from Monthly Meetings and related materials pertaining to a proposal to divide BRQ
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| 1988 Fall | Riverview | Meeting for Business | Archiving of minutes, States of Society
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| 1988 Spring | Rock Hill | Meeting for Business | Role of Continuing Committee; Plumbottom WG reported discontinued; ILYM and BRQ planning
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| 1987 Fall | Urbana | Meeting for Business | Archiving of minutes; ministry and caring; role of Continuing Committee
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| 1987 Spring | Rock Hill | Meeting for Business | Adoption of retreat format; ministry and caring; MacIntyre project in Nicaragua; role of Continuing Committee
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| 1986 Fall | Riverview | Meeting for Business | Minutes from this session have not been located. If you have a copy or know where one is, please contact Peter Lasersohn,
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| 1986 Spring | Rock Hill | Meeting for Business | Concern for meetings not represented
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| 1985 Fall | Riverview | Meeting for Business | Concern for indicted Sanctuary workers; religious education; possibility of Youth Coordinator position
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| 1985 Spring | Rock Hill | Meeting for Business | Possibility of dividing BRQ; ILYM planning not to be part of BRQ; focus and content of BRQ gatherings
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| 1984 Fall | Urbana | Meeting for Business | Format and content of BRQ: possibility of division, retreat format, role of ILYM planning
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| 1984 Spring | Rock Hill | Meeting for Business | FCNL; ILYM planning
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| 1983 Fall | Urbana | Meeting for Business | ILYM planning, Young Friends
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| 1983 Spring | Rock Hill | Meeting for Business | Minutes from this session have not been located. If you have a copy or know where one is, please contact Peter Lasersohn,
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| 1982 Fall | Decatur | Meeting for Business | Small-group discussion on war tax resistence, ILYM handbook and Faith and Practice, Young Friends, Peace Caravan, journalizing
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| 1982 Spring | Rock Hill | Meeting for Business | Minutes from this session have not been located. If you have a copy or know where one is, please contact Peter Lasersohn,
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| 1981 Fall | Urbana | Meeting for Business | Frequency of State of Society Reports; location and format of meetings; request from Bloomington-Normal PM for a monthly meeting; site planning for ILYM 1982
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| 1981 Spring | Rock Hill | Meeting for Business | Minutes from this session have not been located. If you have a copy or know where one is, please contact Peter Lasersohn,
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| 1980 Fall | Urbana | Meeting for Business | Minutes from this session have not been located. If you have a copy or know where one is, please contact Peter Lasersohn,
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| 1980 Spring | Rock Hill | Meeting for Business | Minutes from this session have not been located. If you have a copy or know where one is, please contact Peter Lasersohn,
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1970-1979
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| 1979 Fall | Urbana | Meeting for Business | Minutes from this session have not been located. If you have a copy or know where one is, please contact Peter Lasersohn,
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| | | Notes | Handwritten notes taken from this meeting, dealing primarily with State of Society reports
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| 1979 Spring | Rock Hill | Meeting for Business | Minutes from this session have not been located. If you have a copy or know where one is, please contact Peter Lasersohn,
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| 1978 Fall | Urbana | Meeting for Business | Minutes from this session have not been located. If you have a copy or know where one is, please contact Peter Lasersohn,
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| 1978 Spring | Rock Hill | Meeting for Business | Minutes from this session have not been located. If you have a copy or know where one is, please contact Peter Lasersohn,
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| 1977 Fall | Urbana | Meeting for Business | Minutes from this session have not been located. If you have a copy or know where one is, please contact Peter Lasersohn,
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| 1977 Spring | Rock Hill | Meeting for Business | Minutes from this session have not been located. If you have a copy or know where one is, please contact Peter Lasersohn,
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| 1976 Fall | Urbana | Meeting for Business | Minutes from this session have not been located. If you have a copy or know where one is, please contact Peter Lasersohn,
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| 1976 Spring | Rock Hill | Meeting for Business | Minutes from this session have not been located. If you have a copy or know where one is, please contact Peter Lasersohn,
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| 1975 Fall | Urbana | Meeting for Business | Minutes from this session have not been located. If you have a copy or know where one is, please contact Peter Lasersohn,
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| 1975 Spring | Rock Hill | Meeting for Business | Minutes from this session have not been located. If you have a copy or know where one is, please contact Peter Lasersohn,
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| 1974 Fall | Urbana | Meeting for Business | Minutes from this session have not been located. If you have a copy or know where one is, please contact Peter Lasersohn,
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| 1974 Spring | Rock Hill | Meeting for Business | Minutes from this session have not been located. If you have a copy or know where one is, please contact Peter Lasersohn,
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| 1973 Fall | Urbana | Meeting for Business | Minutes from this session have not been located. If you have a copy or know where one is, please contact Peter Lasersohn,
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| 1973 Spring | Rock Hill | Meeting for Business | Minutes from this session have not been located. If you have a copy or know where one is, please contact Peter Lasersohn,
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| 1972 Fall | Clear Creek | Meeting for Business | Minutes from this session have not been located. If you have a copy or know where one is, please contact Peter Lasersohn,
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| 1972 Spring | Urbana | Meeting for Business | Minutes from this session have not been located. If you have a copy or know where one is, please contact Peter Lasersohn,
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| 1971 Fall | Little Grassy | Meeting for Business | Minutes from this session have not been located. If you have a copy or know where one is, please contact Peter Lasersohn,
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| 1971 Spring | Urbana | Meeting for Business | Minutes from this session have not been located. If you have a copy or know where one is, please contact Peter Lasersohn,
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| 1970 Fall | Little Grassy | Meeting for Business | State of Society reports; Springfield PM reported established; civil rights struggle in Cairo, Illinois
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| 1970 Spring | Urbana | Meeting for Business | State of Society reports; approaches to business meeting and decision-making
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1960-1969
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| 1969 Fall | Rock Hill | Meeting for Business | Peoria Meeting reported inactive, Peoria Friends attending Galesburg WG; new WG in Bloomington
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| 1969 Spring | Urbana | Meeting for Business | Discontinuation of BRQ treasury and office of treasurer; need for quarterly meeting
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| 1968 Fall | Rock Hill | Meeting for Business | State of Society reports; continuation of treasury; no name change to "Half-Yearly Meeting"
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| 1968 Spring | Urbana | Meeting for Business | State of Society reports; draft counseling; continuation treasury
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| 1967 Fall | Rock Hill | Meeting for Business | Carbondale PM reported established; proposal to change name to Blue River Half-Yearly Meeting rejected; office of treasurer retained, $100 limit on treasury, with surplus to be transferred to ILYM
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| 1967 Summer | Clear Creek | Meeting for Business | Summer session discontinued; proposal to change name to Blue River Half-Yearly Meeting
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| 1967 Spring | Urbana | Meeting for Business | State of Society reports
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| 1966 Fall | Rock Hill | Meeting for Business | Relief for Viet Nam
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| 1966 Summer | Clear Creek | Meeting for Business | Minutes from this session have not been located. If you have a copy or know where one is, please contact Peter Lasersohn,
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| | | Letter | This undated letter from Helen Jean Nelson to BRQ, recommending establishment of Decatur and Columbia MMs, is believed to date from Summer 1966
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| 1966 Spring | Urbana | Meeting for Business | Possibility of reviving Benjaminville Meeting; conflict in Peoria Meeting; BRQ clerkship to rotate among MM clerks
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| 1965 Fall | Rock Hill | Meeting for Business | Excess funds turned over to ILYM; continuation of office of treasurer; State of Society reports
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| 1965 Summer | Clear Creek | Meeting for Business | Proposal to eliminate office of treasurer; selection of representatives to ILYM, nominee to ILYM Exercises Committee
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| 1965 Spring | Urbana | Meeting for Business | Letter to Pres. Johnson supporting negotations and economic development in Viet Nam; possibility of eliminating office of treasurer
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| 1964 Fall | Rock Hill | Meeting for Business | Possibility of eliminating office of treasurer; State of Society reports
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| 1964 Summer | Clear Creek | Meeting for Business | Appointment of representatives, members of Exercises and Epistle Committees; proposal for yearly meeting handbook
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| 1964 Spring | Urbana | Meeting for Business | Revision of queries; outreach
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| 1963 Fall | Rock Hill | Meeting for Business | Support for small meetings
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| 1963 Summer | Clear Creek | Meeting for Business | Proposal to hold Urbana-Champaign sessions at Camp Howard; appointment of representatives to ILYM and members of Exercises and Epistles Committees
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| 1963 Spring | Urbana | Meeting for Business | ILYM meetinghouse renovations; proposal for ILYM program for University of Illinois students
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| 1962 Fall | Rock Hill | Meeting for Business | Difficulties Friends face in addressing competing claims on attention and money; building up the coherence and vitality of quarterly meeting
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| 1962 Summer | Clear Creek | Meeting for Business | Minutes from this session have not been located. If you have a copy or know where one is, please contact Peter Lasersohn,
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| 1962 Spring | Peoria | Meeting for Business | Decision to meet three times per year; recommendations of changes in ILYM structure
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| 1962 Winter | Urbana | Meeting for Business | Concern for Normal-Bloomington PM; proposal that BRQ meet three times per year
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| 1961 Fall | Rock Hill | Meeting for Business | Report on Friends National Conference on World Affairs; police interrogation of Margaret Fowler; concern for Normal-Bloomington Meeting; low attendance at BRQ
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| 1961 Summer | Clear Creek | Meeting for Business | Appointments of representatives to ILYM, members of ILYM Exercises and Epistle Committees
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| 1961 Spring | Peoria | Meeting for Business | Dual membership; Pacific YM proposal regarding income tax; eventual withdrawal of US from United Nations; Cuban situation
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| 1961 Winter | Urbana | Meeting for Business | Continuation of four-times-per-year schedule, desirability of reducing time spent on business and emphasizing fellowship; University of Illinois ROTC program
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| 1960 Fall | Rock Hill | Meeting for Business | Proposals to meet twice per year, eliminate ILYM business
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| 1960 Summer | Wakanda | Meeting for Business | Minutes from this session have not been located. If you have a copy or know where one is, please contact Peter Lasersohn,
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| 1960 Spring | Clear Creek | Meeting for Business | Proposals to meet twice per year, eliminate ILYM business; kitchen renovations of ILYM meetinghouse; BRQ assessment of monthly meetings retained as 5% of ILYM assessment
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| 1960 Winter | Urbana | Meeting for Business | Minuting to be done in the face of the meeting; construction of dormitory at ILYM meetinghouse; anti-semitism
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1950-1959
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| 1959 Fall | Rock Hill | Meeting for Business | Queries to monthly meetings regarding spiritual unity in ILYM
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| 1959 Summer | Wakanda | Meeting for Business | Appointment of representatives to ILYM, members of ILYM Exercises and Epistles Committees; location of yearly meeting
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| 1959 Spring | Clear Creek | Meeting for Business | Contributions to ILYM; Ministry & Counsel reports to ILYM; housing at ILYM meetinghouse; location for ILYM sessions
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| 1959 Winter | Urbana | Meeting for Business | Funding for Friends activities among Native Americans; committee reports for ILYM to be presented at spring BRQ; letter to senators regarding selective service; housing at ILYM
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| 1958 Fall | Rock Hill | Meeting for Business | Ohio Valley Conference held at Highland Creek; FCNL activities
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| 1958 Summer | Wakanda | Meeting for Business | Continued publication of Among Friends; appointments of representatives to ILYM
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| 1958 Spring | Peoria | Meeting for Business | BRQ responsibility to host meetings; proposal to divide ILYM
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| 1958 Winter | Urbana | Meeting for Business | Curtailment or discontinuation of Among Friends; supoprt for foreign service; FWCC meeting in Germany; opposition to nuclear testing
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| 1957 Fall | Rock Hill | Meeting for Business | WGs reported organized in Carbondale, Charleston; increase in suggested MM donations to ILYM
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| 1957 Summer | Clear Creek | Report to ILYM | BRQ representatives to ILYM; recommendation to establish Normal-Bloomington PM as a monthly meeting; acquisition of Urbana-Champaign meetinghouse
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| 1957 Spring | Peoria | Meeting for Business | Conveners of BRQ to be responsible for sending notice of meetings to Friends Journal; insurance pledges for Koinonia Community; proposed flyleaf on ILYM discipline
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| 1957 Winter | Bloomington | Meeting for Business | Announcements and reports of BRQ to be sent to Friends Journal; possibile ILYM adoption of Philadelphia YM Faith and Practice; possible establishment of Friends Committee on Legislation for Illinois and Wisconsin; peace testimony; outreach
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| 1956 Fall | St. Louis | Meeting for Business | 5% of donations by monthly meeting to be retained for BRQ; establishment of Normal-Bloomington PM
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| 1956 Summer | Clear Creek | Report to ILYM | Request from Normal-Bloomington Friends for preparative meeting under the care of Urbana-Champaign MM; possibility of new ILYM discipline; appointment of representatives to ILYM, members of ILYM Exercises and Epistle Committees. Note: Includes an erroneous typed report, with a separate page of hand-written corrections
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| 1956 Spring | Peoria | Meeting for Business | Support for refugees; possibility of ILYM adoption of Philadelphia YM Faith and Practice; request for affiliation from Bloomington WG
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| 1956 Winter | Champaign | Meeting for Business | Bloomington WG reported organized; need for new ILYM Discipline; no quota or assessment for monthly meeting contributions; cooperation with Illinois Church Council
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| 1955 Fall | St. Louis | Meeting for Business | Disproportionate financial burden on Clear Creek Meeting; renovations to Junior Yearly Meetinghouse; reports on Friends organizations
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| 1955 Summer | Clear Creek | Meeting for Business | Appointment of BRQ representatives to ILYM, members of ILYM Exercises and Epistle Committees; report to ILYM
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| | | Report to ILYM | Representatives; forums; decision not to attempt to revive Highland Creek Meeting
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| 1955 Spring | Peoria | Meeting for Business | State of Society reports; opposition to legislation mandating Univeral Military Training; visitation to Conscientious Objectors in prison
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| 1955 Winter | Champaign | Meeting for Business | Support for FCNL efforts to oppose draft legislation; decision not to attempt to revive Highland Creek Meeting
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| 1954 Fall | St. Louis | Meeting for Business | ILYM and BRQ budgets, expected monthly meeting contributions to ILYM and BRQ; organizational structure and work of FGC
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| 1954 Summer | Clear Creek | Meeting for Business | Appointment of representatives to ILYM, and of replacement clerk
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| 1954 Spring | Peoria | Meeting for Business | State of Society reports; summer meetings to be held immediately prior to ILYM, with no State of Society reports expected
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| 1954 Winter | Champaign | Meeting for Business | Use of maps in First Day schools; possibility of establishing a Friends school; possible family retreat
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| 1953 Fall | St. Louis | Meeting for Business | Scheduling of appointments to BRQ offices, and of annual treasurer's report; scheduling of BRQ sessions
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| | | Summary | Descriptive summary of business and other activities at 1953 Fall session
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| 1953 Spring | Peoria | Meeting for Business | Scheduling of BRQ sessions — no summer session for 1953; appointment of representatives to ILYM; budget; report on visit to Highland Creek
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| 1953 Winter | Champaign | Meeting for Business | State of Society reports may be written or oral; hosting European Young Friends in US for conference
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| 1952 Fall | St. Louis | Meeting for Business | Organizational meeting for "new" quarterly meeting consisting of the southern portion of old BRQ; retention of the name "Blue River Quarterly Meeting"; program beyond business meeting to be responsibility of host meeting; offices to include clerk, assistant clerk and treasurer, host meeting to provide recording clerk; old BRQ treasury to be divided between new QMs; 5% of amount contributed to ILYM to be retained for BRQ; report on condition of Highland Creek Meeting
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| 1952 Summer | Peoria | Meeting for Business | Division of BRQ into two quarterly meetings; Hoopeston and Fawcett funds to be transferred to ILYM
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| 1952 Spring | Evanston | Meeting for Business | Affiliation with Urbana-Champaign Friends Meeting approved; delay in deciding on division into two QMs to allow Urbana-Champaign MM to consider the issue
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| | | Letter | Request from Urbana-Champaign Friends Meeting to affiliate with BRQ
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| 1952 Winter | Chicago | Meeting for Business | Coordination and coopertation with Chicago QM; opposition to US appointment of ambassador to Vatican; opposition to films preparing high school students for military service; opposition to McCarran Subversive Activities Control Act; possible affiliation with Urbana-Champaign Friends Meeting
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| 1951 Fall | St. Louis | Meeting for Business | Financial support for representatives to World Conference of Friends, Scattergood School, AFSC
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| 1951 Summer | Madison | Meeting for Business | Financial support for representatives to World Conference of Friends; AFSC work on race relations in Chicago
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| 1951 Spring | Milwaukee | Meeting for Business | Nominees to World Conference of Friends; 10th Month Conference; visit to Washington & Springfield by Wilma Lux; AFSC Chicago
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| | | Treasurer's Report | Income and expenses, 1-5/1951
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| 1951 Winter | Chicago | Meeting for Business | Wyck Group, AFSC
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| | | General Meeting Planning Committee | These minutes, of the Planning Committee for a general meeting of all branches of Friends in Illinois, were entered into the minute book of Blue River Quarterly Meeting
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| 1950 Fall | St. Louis | Meeting for Business | Report on labors with Sen. Paul Douglas over his position on military defense and nuclear weapons; support for AFSC, Displaced Persons; possibility of another General Meeting
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| 1950 Summer | Madison | Meeting for Business | ILYM treasurer to serve as BRQ treasurer
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| | | Forum | Panel discussion on Korea
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| 1950 Spring | Oak Park | Meeting for Business | Position of Sen. Paul Douglas on peace and armament; Milwaukee MM affiliation with BRQ approved; memorial of Jeannette Stetson
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| | | Treasurer's Report | Income and expenses, 5/1949-5/1950
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| | | Affiliation request | Letter from Milwaukee MM requesting affiliation with BRQ
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| 1950 Winter | Chicago | Meeting for Business | AFSC activities; memorial of Clement Flitcraft; planning for General Meeting; support for peace legislation
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| | | General Meeting report | Report on the 2nd General Meeting of Friends in and adjacent to Illinois
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1940-1949
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| 1949 Fall | St. Louis | Meeting for Business | Penn Valley MM reported no longer affiliated with BRQ; AFSC activities; support for continuing General Meeting;report on visit to Pres. Truman regarding conscientious objectors
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| 1949 Summer | Madison | Meeting for Business | Minutes from this session have not been located. If you have a copy or know where one is, please contact Peter Lasersohn,
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| 1949 Spring | Oak Park | Meeting for Business | Retention of Field Secretary; AFSC activities;General Meeting of Friends in Illinois
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