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Sandra Lee Cronk Papers
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Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081
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Sandra Lee Cronk (1942-2000) was a Quaker author who co-founded School of the Spirit, a ministry of prayer and learning under the auspices of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.
Cronk was born in 1942 and was a member of Princeton (NJ.) Monthly Meeting. She graduated from Western Reserve University and received her graduate degree in History of Religions at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. Her dissertation, Gelassenheit: The Rites of the Redemptive Process in Old Order Amish and Old Order Mennonites, was completed in 1977 and was published as an article in The Mennonite Quarterly Review as Old Order Amish and Old Order Mennonites: Loving Community Based on the Power of Powerlessness in 1980. Sandra Cronk also wrote Peace Be With You: A Study of the Spiritual Basis of the Friends Peace Testimony (1984?), Dark Night Journey: Inward Re-patterning Toward a Life Centered in God, and Gospel Order: A Quaker Understanding of Faithful Church Community, the latter two published by Pendle Hill in 1991.
She taught Christian Spirituality and Quaker Studies at Pendle Hill, the Quaker center of study and contemplation in Wallingford, Pennsylvania. She also spent time at Woodbrooke, the Friends study center in Birmingham, England.
Sandra Cronk and Kathryn Damiano, another teacher at Pendle Hill, co-founded the School of the Spirit in 1989. In 1991 they were joined by Frances Taber who was a core teacher for the first offering of the program, On Being A Spiritual Nurturer. Carole Treadway and Michael Green later became part of the program. After Sandras death in April of 2000, the School of the Spirit Ministry, formerly sponsored by the Meeting on Worship and Ministry of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, became a Working Group under that bodys Worship and Care Standing Committee.
The papers of Sandra Lee Cronk include manuscripts of her published and unpublished writings, some correspondence relating to writing and teaching, and files of material assembled in the process of her courses at Pendle Hill. Of particular interest are the minutes and related papers of the Abortion Study Group of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. The papers also include correspondence with Margaret J. Benefiel and Kathryn A. Damiano about their dissertations.
Divided into three series:
- 1. Lectures, Classes and Seminars;
- 2. Writings;
- 3. Miscellaneous Correspondence.
Gift of Cindy Nowina (sister of Sandra Cronk), FHL 2003.004
Gift of Marty Grundy (biographer of Sandra Cronk), 2009.004
Collection was delivered to Friends Historical Library by Carole Treadway who did some arrangement of the materials. Secondary reference materials, note cards, and college course notebooks were removed from the collection by FHL staff.
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- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
- Finding Aid Date
- 2014
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Collection is open for research.
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Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce items in this collection beyond the bounds of Fair Use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder or their heirs/assigns. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-RUU/1.0/.
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Includes corrected drafts, notes, and related correspondence
Dissertation: typescript
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Published in Festival Quarterly
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Printed in Weavings
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An article by Sandra Cronk in 1993 Conference Report
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Includes typescripts, notes, and related correspondence
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Budget, statement of faith, cover letter, course outline
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Comments on Sandra Cronk's class, "Downside-Up Kingdom"
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Prefaced by Ron Pinheiro's letter to Marty Grundy (2003)
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"Materials for book on Sandra Cronk's journal and writing", letter to Cronk from Art and Mary Guisen, letter of recommendation from Parker Palmer, Job offer letter from Pendel Hill (Parker Palmer), letter from Edwin and Anna Espenshade, letter from acquaintances to Cronk family after Sandra's death, letters to Sandra from Allison Randall, Roger Dreisbach-Williams, Ann Miller, Memorials for Sonnie
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From Sandra Cronk to Vinie B., From Roger/Liesel Dreisbach-Williams to the School of Spirit about Sonnie's death, From Gerald and Stephanie Stover to Cronk's family, From Cindy Nowina to Marty Grundy
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Collage, "The 'Night' in the Psalms", "On Contemplative Life", "The First Protest Against Slavery" pamphlet
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Collections from Eastern Orthodox writings, notes from workshop in 2001, booklet of meditations – in one envelope sent to Grundy from Blocher in 2011
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Overview of class on "The Quaker Basics distance learning course", notes from classes taught by Sandra Cronk in 1987-1988
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Forwarded to Marty Grundy by Brian in 2005, includes "Crossing Borders" by Heidi Blocher in Stillwater Meeting Newsletter
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About Vicki Cooley's death
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Comments on Sonnie's journal and writings
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"Crucifixion", "My Situation", correspondence about editing and publishing Sandra Cronk's journal
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Letter asking for spiritual and financial support
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Outline of 21 letters from Sandra Cronk, no author identification
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By Marilyn Alfonso
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Three women in floral dresses
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