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From: Tom Hamm <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Request for Membership
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 09:15:13 -0800
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You will have to check with Newtown Monthly Meeting. If you haven't
been in touch with them since 1958, then you've probably been
dropped. But some monthly meetings are notably reluctant to drop
anyone.

T Hamm


>I recently found the following letter and would like to know if this means
>that my brother and I are members? After 45 years, I kind of doubt it, I was
>two at the time. Was this type of responce the common way of notification? If
>no meetings were attended, since we were already in California, would we have
>been dropped long ago for na? Would there be a record in the minutes? In 1958
>we lived in San Jose, California. We moved to California in 1951.
>
>Newtown Monthly Meeting of Friends
>Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
>February 7th, 1958
>
>Dear Bob and Virginia,
>
> Your letter requesting membership in Newtown Monthly Meeting for Peter
>and Robert was read at Monthly Meeting last evening. That request was
>accepted by us all with much pleasure. We are happy indeed that your small
>sons are now part of the meeting circle.
>
>Warmest greetings from us all
>On behalf of the meeting
>Ella R. Otto, Clerk
>
>Bob Cooke
>
>
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