Kirkridge is a retreat and study center rooted in Christ, close to the earth, where people from diverse backgrounds find community and experience the transforming power of the Spirit for personal wholeness, reconciliation, and justice in the world.

Since 1942, Kirkridge Retreat and Study Center has been providing a place for rest and renewal to pilgrims along life's journey. We are located on the beautiful Kittatinny Ridge of eastern Pennsylvania near the Delaware Water Gap and the Pocono Mountains region. Our retreats, our hospitality, our beautiful vistas, and our sacred ground have blessed and continue to bless countless lives.

## KIRKRIDGE

Retreat and Study Center
2495 Fox Gap Road, Bangor
PA 18013-6028
610-588-1793
www.kirkridge.org

For more information contact
Jean Richardson, director of Kirkridge.
jeanr@kirkridge.org

# KIRKRIDGE
RETREAT AND STUDY CENTER

## The Memorial Garden

KIRKRIDGE

"For you shall go out in joy,
and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and the hills
before you shall break forth
into singing, and all the trees
of the field will clap their
hands."

Isaiah 55:12

The Memorial Garden at Kirkridge

A Celtic cross and a weatherworn bench overlook the Delaware River Valley. From the mountain you can take in a panorama of forest, farmland, and the distant ridges of the Kittatinny Range. People come down the trail from Turning Point to remember, to rest, and to take in the long view. It is a place of memorial and of dedication, where we give thanks for those who have gone before and renew our commitment to this community.

The Memorial Garden is the work of people who have loved this mountain. They have cleared paths, laid stones, and planted for the seasons. Now, a serene and beautiful garden speaks gratitude—for all that Kirkridge has meant to a long line of pilgrims—and it tells of hope for the future. From the rich legacy of our shared history the new possibilities of peace, justice, and human joy inspire us.

This mountainside garden is a burial ground for those who share this vision. Already the ashes of more than a score of Kirkridgers lie here. You are invited to arrange for the burial here of your ashes or those of your family or friends. We ask that you make a gift to the Memorial Fund of $500, and that you consider including Kirkridge in your estate plan. This gift will be used to care for the memorial garden and to keep the mission of Kirkridge alive for years to come.

A memorial tablet includes the name and dates of birth and death of each person, and a biography is kept in the Director's office. For those who wish, Kirkridge can supply a bio-degradable urn for burial of the ashes. A map of the place of burial of each urn is also kept by the Director.

Kirkridge is both a people and a place. Here, in the Memorial Garden, some of our people lie in the land they came to love, on this strong mountain with the beautiful river running by. Keeping them in grateful remembrance, we continue our pilgrimage of faith and love.

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## How To Make Arrangements

If you would like to make arrangements to purchase a bench in honor of someone who loves Kirkridge or who has loved Kirkridge in the past, the cost of a two seat bench is around $500 and the cost of a three seater is around $600. To have a brass plaque attached costs an additional $25.

Call or write us to make arrangements. We can always use more benches and it is a lovely way to honor a friend.
(610) 588-1793

If you would like to make arrangements to have your ashes or the ashes of a loved one scattered or buried in Kirkridge's Memorial Garden, please write to the Executive Director, explain that person's relationship to Kirkridge, and let us know if you would like us to provide a brief ceremony for the occasion. It is customary that those wishing to use our Memorial Garden provide a donation to Kirkridge, with a $250 minimum for the privilege. A brass plaque with that person's name and dates will be added to our Memorial wall inside the Turning Point building.

Write to Executive Director

Kirkridge

2495 Fox Gap Road

Bangor, PA 18013

(610) 588-1793

Names of those whose ashes have been scattered in our Memorial Garden to date:

(Eleanor can fill in with names and dates of all those in the garden now)

Names of those who have had benches given to Kirkridge in their honor or memory:

(Eleanor can take an inventory of all memorial benches and fill in the names.)

We ask that you join us in this prayer:

O God of life beyond life, we thank you for this sacred place where so many lives have been transformed, fortified, and healed over these many years. We ask you to continue to bless Kirkridge, that it would continue to become a beloved place for generations to come. We thank you for the cloud of witnesses whose loving spirits surround and infuse this mountain campus. May we honor them and their relationship to Kirkridge through these memorial projects. And may we likewise be transformed by your Spirit to do your will in the world. Through Jesus Christ, in whose name we pray. Amen.

11/12/2004

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MEMORIAL GARDEN

CREATED IN JUNE 1987

By friends of Kirkridge for the
scattered ashes of those who loved
this mountain.....

Ralph Clovis Johnston

Feb 11, 1947 -Feb 16, 1987

Marcella Murray Stocker

May 31, 1910 - Sept 17, 1984

Henry Joseph Stocker

Dec 31, 1903 - Feb 1, 1985

Marcella Stocker Sedwick

June 18, 1945 - Nov 4, 1985

Setphen M. Shinkle

Apr 30, 1950 - Feb 6, 1991

Richard B. Mathes, III

Mar 6, 1946 - Mar 18, 1995

John E. Giles III

Nov 24, 1949 - Aug 22, 1996

Blaine Bruce Ancerson

Jan 16, 1946 - Mar 4, 2003

Jean Stutzman Slates Hawk

Nov 10, 1925 - Oct 8, 2004

.....REST AND REMEMBER

Donna Griffith

Oct 25, 1959 - July 17, 1996

Paul L. Hulslander

Feb 19, 1910 - Apr 3, 1997

Robert David Carnahan

May 23, 1921 - Dec 13, 1996

Jimmy Montoya

Oct 21, 1962 - July 24, 1997

Mark W. Palmer

Apr 13, 1947 - Jan 20, 1999

Evelyn R. Kressler

Nov 23, 1931 - July 11, 1999

Jeffrey Mullner

Aug 22, 1960 - Aug 11, 1992

Walter Johnson

July 28, 1935 - Dec 13, 1999

total 17 names as of NOVEMBER 15, 2004

Angelicus, nunc
filipendens, p[ro] activus

Frederick Franck is the existence theorem that the goal of the true *University* is attainable: society can educate (nourish) human beings to transcend the ludicrous limits of a discipline, to operate outside the perimeter of a profession, to escape the confines of one religion's rigidities. Trained in medicine and dentistry, he learned the discipline vocabulary, and the limitations of science and technology. Working with Schweitzer in Lambarene not only was a measure of his personal concerns, but a learning *experience* in the "one-world" dimension. His theology was learned at the best school of all, the School of Life; life in the multi-cultural reality of our blue-green spaceship. His writing is like a spider spinning precise, finely-limned, cobwebs of meaning to catch us and draw us

They possess that strange quality which incites one to see more keenly, with eyes wider awake than usual. It is not a matter of "style," for his style is one to which the labels of fashion and the time-bound criteria of current art criticism hardly apply. Rather, it is a moving combination of unadorned visual veracity and poetry, of a reverential reserve which in no way inhibits a pervasive sense of humor. Whether his subject is an insect, a panorama, a blossoming branch, a street scene, a crowd, a nude figure or a landscape, Franck's drawings will lead the eye to an astonishingly close confrontation with reality, a reality that is seen at once as quite familiar and at the same time as uncannily new.

"The meaning of life is to see," says an ancient Chinese sage. For this artist, it is not only his life, but

## EXHIBITIONS

### PATTEE EAST WING GALLERY

*The Way of the Cross* — coll. Cathedral of St. John the Divine, N.Y.C.

*The Ten Oxherding Pictures* — " " " " " " "

*Paintings* (India ink on canvas 50 x 50")

*Cross of the Resurrection* (Corten steel, 8 x 4') — Wainwright House Rye, N.Y.; on extended loan

*The Original Face* (steel, 4 x 5')

### KERN BUILDING

24 *Drawings from the Five Continents*, ink on paper

"Violence"; two ink paintings on paper

A continuous slide show on "Pacem in Terris", the 18th Century mill ruin Franck restored into a "trans-religious oasis of inwardness, a work of art outside of the art game, a religious statement outside of all religious games".

### EISENHOWER CHAPEL

Hiroshima, *The Unkillable Human* (two component, steel, 4 x 8')

*Death and Transfiguration* (steel, 4 x 8')

EXHIBITIONS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC April 9-30, 1989, 9-5 PM Mondays-Fridays

"Pilgrim image to Now/here: The Christ Buddha Synthesis" and the "Supreme Koan," are the fore-runner of the unavoidable core, only now engaging the major theologians of the world: a universal theology. Yet while he is so totally future oriented, Frederick Franck is deeply rooted in the great thought, ideas, music, of his own past. Ivan Illich has written: "The Present is the Future of the Past," and it is our human and world's present condition that engages and vitalizes Frederick Franck.

But we honor also a distinguished visual artist, and I cannot do better than let the words of Hans M.J. Nieuwdorp, Conservator of Antwerp's Museum, speak of his accomplishments in that field.

"Frederick Franck's drawings show the simplicity and directness which are characteristic of the born artist.

but also his constant practical guideline. As a Westerner and an artist Franck is particularly endowed to transmit this insight to his contemporaries in all its richness and profundity by the persuasive spontaneity of his drawings. A drawing is not a 'thing' to him, but witness of an inner process of drawing.

"In his paintings the draftsman reveals himself as the poet to whom the haiku form comes naturally. As in haiku the meaning must be read between the lines: the unsayable is said in eloquent silences, the invisible evoked by the austere and subtle art of leaving out."

Rustum Roy, Director
Science, Technology & Society Program

## SYMPOSIA

SUNDAY, APRIL 9 EISENHOWER CHAPEL 7.30 PM

"Macro-Ecumenism and the Lost Art of Seeing" with insights from the 17th century Christian-Zen mystic Angelus Silesius.

MONDAY, APRIL 10 KERN BUILDING 3.30 PM

"Technology and the Artistic Impulse"
Frederick Franck
Rob Fisher, artist in residence, College of Engineering
Edda Hevers, Mercedes Benz Project on Technology & Art

APRIL 10 KERN COMMONS 7.30 PM

You are cordially invited to the opening of the Frederick Franck exhibitions. Remarks by Rustum Roy, Director, STS Program, and James Moser, Department of Architecture, followed by a reception and celebration of the artist's 80th birthday and the publication of "Life Drawing Life", his 25th book.

TUESDAY, APRIL 11 PALMER MUSEUM OF ART 7.30 PM

Frederick, Claske and Lukas Franck read "The Death and Life of EveryOne", Franck's contemporary variation on the medieval theme of "Everyman" appropriately staged in the exhibition "The art of the era of the Rosenberg Trial".

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12 112 KERN BUILDING

Annual Science, Technology & Society Lecture
"Frederick Franck on "Criteria of Being Human Aboard Spaceship Titanic"