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Judy and Michael Van Hoy Papers

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Call Number:
RG5.341
Repository:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
8.417 linear ft. (16 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item or series here], Judy and Michael Van Hoy Papers, RG5/341, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Date:
1967-2015 (inclusive)
Creator:
Van Hoy, Judy, 1960-
Abstract:
The papers of Judy and Michael Van Hoy, members of Green Street Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who have been deeply involved in social justice concerns particularly through the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Workcamps programs. Both also were active in international workcamps, especially in Kenya. Judy Van Hoy maintained correspondence with many international workcampers, including extensive correspondence with Jane Swart, a South African who worked at the Quaker Peace Centre in the early 1990s. In addition to their employment with Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, both Van Hoys are teachers and peace and social activists. The papers include correspondence, writings, and related material and provide insight into the concerns of late 20th century Philadelphia Quakers.

Judith Anne Cunningham, born February 17, 1960, was a birthright member of Green Street Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her parents, William A. and Elizabeth Cunningham, had joined the Society of Friends in 1958. Judy graduated from Philadelphia High School for Girls in 1978, started college at Cheyney University, and then transferred to Temple University. She graduated in 1981 with a B.S. in elementary education, spent the following summer in Greece studying modern Greek, and began a graduate program in Philosophy at Temple.

From a young age, Judy expressed concern for social justice issues and peace. In 1983 she spent the summer at a workcamp in Botswana. Her "Peace is a Group Effort" illustration has been widely used, and she designed other banners and posters for Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and related organizations. Judy worked for the Yearly Meeting as an office assistant 1982-1984 and associate librarian, 1995-1999. She served as director of Friends Weekend Workcamp Program from 1984 to 1989 and again 1997-2003. The program sent high school and college-aged volunteers to assist in low-income homes in Philadelphia. Judy led workcamp groups to Kenya in 1987, 1988, 1989 where she represented the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Oversight Committee. In 2003 she resigned from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and resumed teaching. In 2012, she returned to Temple to complete a Masters Degree.

While serving as the Director of the PYM Workcamp, she met Michael Van Hoy who came to Philadelphia as an intern in 1988. Michael Van Hoy was born July 7, 1963, in Richmond, Virginia, and grew up in an Evangelical Quaker family in Asheboro, North Carolina. In the 1970s, his father, Bill Van Hoy, was the lead advocate for the desegregation of schools in Ashboro. Michael earned a B.A. from Haverford College in 1985. Following graduation, he was awarded a prestigious Watson Fellowship to study Christian Ecumenical Organization 1985-1986, traveling in Africa and Latin America. In the fall of 1985 he spent several months at the National Council of Churches of Kenya representing Friends United Meeting.

Michael Van Hoy interned at Friends Committee on National Legislation in 1986-1987 and was drawn to urban ministry. He interned at Friends Workcamp program 1988-1989 and assumed the position of Director in 1989-1998 when Judy Cunningham took the job of associate librarian for PYM. Michael Van Hoy and Judy Cunningham married May 27,1990, at Green Street Friends Meeting House. They home schooled their foster son Romanze and Judy's nieces in 1998-2000, and subsequently Michael worked in the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Development Office. The Van Hoys organized and led a Green Street Monthly Meeting trip to South Africa in 2001. In 2007 he served as Director of the AFSC China Summer Workcamp. Following employment with Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, he taught in private schools in Philadelphia.

The Weekend Workcamps Program originated on the eve of World War II. It provides volunteers and opportunity to work in an inner city community, interact with neighbors, and dialog on peace and justice issues. In 1977 the Weekend Workcamps Subcommittee was set off as a separate committee of Philadelphhia Yearly Meeting.

In 1983, the Committee bought the house in which its activities were centered, at 840 N. 42nd St. in West Philadelphia. Today the Friends' Workcamp Program operates under the auspices of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's Standing Committee on Peace and Concerns.

The papers of Judy and Michael Van Hoy, members of Green Street Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who have been deeply involved in social justice concerns particularly through the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Workcamps programs. Both also were active in international workcamps, especially in Kenya. Judy Van Hoy maintained correspondence with many international workcampers, including extensive correspondence with Jane Swart, a South African who worked at the Quaker Peace Centre in the early 1990s. In addition to their employment with Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, both Van Hoys are teachers and peace and social activists. The papers include correspondence, writings, and related material and provide insight into the concerns of late 20th century Philadelphia Quakers.

Arranged in six series.

Gift of Judy and Michael Van Hoy, FHL Acc. 2016.051.

Found in collection (PYM backlog) FHL Acc. 2023 055

Judy Van Hoy sorted most of the correspondence by correspondent.

Additions added and sub-series created for the 2001 Green Street Monthly Meeting South Africa trip, 6/13/2024

Friends' Workcamp Program Records. QM-Phy-774

Workcamp photos removed to process with PA 134; China Workcamp 2002 VHS tape and audio cassette of 1992 Michael Van Hoy seminars to be added to Islandora. Stored with photos on accession shelves.

Minutes of the Philadelphia Workcamp program have been removed to check for duplicates in QM-Phy-774.

Personal cassettes and wall calendars to return to donor.

Peace Committee poster by Judy Van Hoy transferred to RG2, PYM

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Publisher
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Author
Susanna Morikawa
Finding Aid Date
August 2021
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Collection Inventory

Andrea Watson, Margaret Webb, 1978-1987.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Classmates from Girls High School. Watson joined the U.S. Air Force in 1983

Gillian Stickney, 1980-1998.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Philadelphia friend; Married E. Mitchell Swann in 1998. Became teacher in Philadelphia

Mary Jo Fina , 1980-2000.
Box 1
"The Six Correspond" , 1981-1983.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Classmates of study abroad in Greece?

Ault family.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Jennie Ault was Judy's grandmother and lived in Oklahoma.

Katie Holley, 1981-2011.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Katie traveled to Greece with Judy in 1981. They maintained an active correspondence, and in 2009 Judy wrote that she was sorting letters and most were from Katie. A photocopy of 10/24/1988 letter from Judy included details about a group of homeless activist who crashed in the Philadelphia Workcamp and had expected to stay multiple days. After a night, they were convinced to move to a homeless shelter. On 1998 Judy was working at the Workcamp and helping Sandy Williams and her children. Her mother was participating in a Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and London Yearly Meeting staff exchange for 3 months in England. Judy and Michael were in love.

Judy Cunningham to Kathryn Holley, 1985-1989.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

While Judy saved most of the letters from Katie together with some copies of her letters sent, Katie wrote in a note in 2008 that she had found a trove of letters from Judy when she was clearing for a move and was returning them to her.

Elizabeth Cunningham , 1988-1989.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Judy's mother, Elizabeth Cunningham, was long-time accountant for Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Most of the letters were written while she was on a staff exchange with London Yearly Meeting.

David and Evelyn Cunningham, 1981-1996.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Judy's brother and sister-in-law

Philip Cunningham and William Cunningham , 1989-1996.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Judy's brother, Phillip Cunningham, was incarcerated but released briefly in 1989 and lived with their father in Vineland, New Jersey. William Cunningham was attempting to reestablish a relationship with Judy after having abruptly left his wife.

William Cunningham correspondence , 1996-1997.
Box 2
Andrew and Stephanie Cunningham , 1997-1999.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Judy's brother and sister-in-law. Their children were home-schooled by Michael while Andrew was in prison, implicated in a Ponzi scheme.

Letters from Jane Swart, Cape Town, South Africa, 1986.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

From Jane, Quaker Peace Centre, Cape Town, South Africa, to Judy who was in working in a Kenya Workcamp.

Letters from Jane Swart, Cape Town, South Africa, 1987-1988.
Box 2
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Jane Swart, staff of the Quaker Peace Center

Jane Swart, Cape Town, South Africa, 1988.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

From Jane Swart, Cape Town. With photocopies of letters from Judy in Philadelphia on her return to the United States. Judy hoped to visit South Africa in August, but the trip did not work out. Judy was involved with Sandy Williams and her children.

Jane Swart, South Africa, Quaker Peace Centre, 1989.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

From Jane working in South Africa, Quaker Peace Centre. Includes photocopies of letters from Judy to Jane as she contemplated marriage, but didn't want to leave her work in Philadelphia. In March 1989 she and Michael visited North Carolina (Michael's home state), and Judy wrote that she couldn't imagine living in an area that had no African-Americans.

Jane Swart, Mowbray, South Africa, 1990-1993.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Jane resigned from Peace Centre. Judy Cunningham married Michael Van Hoy in June 1990, and on Jan. 18, 1992, Jane married Simon Mglamelo, a black South African graduate student. Jane's letters mentioned protests and violence in South Africa. The Quaker church membeship had dwindled, and she joined a charismatic, evangelical congregation in 1993.

Jane Swart, Mowbray, South Africa .
Box 2
Scope and Contents

A letter from Jane in August 1994 she referenced that Judy Van Hoy had resigned from Green Street Monthly Meeting in disagreement with the committee who sat on school. In 1996 Jane and Simon were living in Umtata, and Jane had a baby boy. A returned Christmas card 2001 from Judy mentioned the foster child, Romanze, she and Michael were raising. Jane Mglamelo worked as educator and freelance editor.

Judy's letters to her parents from Kenya , 1988-1989.
Box 2
Judith Monyi, from Kenya, Philadelphia, etc. , 1987-2002.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

To Judy Cunningham, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Workcamps. With congratulation from FWCC (Friends World Committee) on Judy's marriage in 1990.

Malenga, Zablon and Dickson Kona correspondence , 1987-1991.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Includes a copy of Judy's 1987 letter on returning from Kenya to Philadelphia, having represented Philadelpia Yearly Meeting Oversight Committee and her 1991 letter regretting she could not visit Kenya that summer.

Letters from volunteers to Kenya, 1987-1991.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Lara Broadfield, Lorna Cameron, Lucas Ford

Letters from Kenya, 1987-1994.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Janet Wakube, Jospheth, Rose Adede, and others. With copy of Judy's September 1987 letter to Josephat, she wrote that she was back to work in Philadelphia Workcamp after a bout with typhoid. Also note to Samuel Snipes from Wycliffe Dembede.

Karen Lassman-Eul and other Workcampers .
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Karen Lassman-Eul and others

Sabina Graf, Munich, 1986-1990.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Graf visited Philadelphia in 1986. She particpated in German Workcamps.

Jiro Kumagai-Doi, Tokyo, Japan, 1986-1990.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Jiro Kumagai-Doi spent time in Philadelphia and knew Judy's friend Sandy and the children. Includes photocopies of letters from Judy describing her love for her friends and especially "Brother Michael" who was interning at Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.

Rika Bauer, Germany , 1988-1989.
Box 3
International Workcamp participants, 1985-1987.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

International workcamp participants who visited the U.S in 1985 and wrote to Judy with dates in Germany, etc.

Andrew Barclay and Jean Barclay, Oxford, England , 1988-1994.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Andrew Barclay had participated in 1987 International Workcamp. He died by suicide in 1989 following the suicide of his sister, and Judy began a correspondence with his mother, Jean. Includes a photocopy of Judy's 1988 letter to Andrew which told him of her own attempt of suicide in high school.

Yanni Demos , 1983-1988.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Friend from Greece

Norton Beck , 1984-1986.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Peace Committee Action Reconciliation volunteer. Peace activist from Germany. He and Judy began working about the same time.

Andy Stevenson , 1989-1991.
Box 3
Marie-Louise Laffineur, Belgium, ca. 1991-2004.
Box 3
Kathryn Burk (later Maleney) 1987-2000 , 1987-2000 .
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Kenya Workcamp participant and future PYM staff member.

Miscellaneous, ca. 1994-2002.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Burr, Edgerton, Davenport (GSFS), Dutot

International Workcampers: Folder 1, 1981-2001.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Hans Delss, Kugelman, etc. Michael organized an international workcamp in summer of 1992. Short notes, cards from workcampers from Europe, Asia

International Workcampers: Folder 2, 1981-2001 .
Box 3
Scope and Contents

To Judy and Michael who organized an international workcamp in summer of 1992, etc. Short notes, cards from workcampers from Europe, Asia

International workcampers: , 1986-1991.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

Haertwig Ficker, Germany, etc.

Printed emails, 1990.
Box 4
Printed emails, 2000.
Box 4
Printed emails, 2001.
Box 4
Printed emails, 2002-2003.
Box 4
Johnson and Hubbard .
Box 4
Scope and Contents

Friends from teaching at Faith Tabernacle.

Miscellaneous to Judy and Michael Van Hoy , ca. 1991-2011 .
Box 4
Scope and Contents

Not sorted.

Letters to grandparents .
Box 5
Scope and Contents

Carbons of typed and signed letters. Michael was a student at Haverford College

Letters to parents , 1981-ca. 1984, 1988 .
Box 5
Scope and Contents

Student at Haverford College; in 1988 interning at Workcamp in Philadelphia.

Letters from parents, Bill and Lois Van Hoy, 1985-1986.
Box 5
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Typed letters while Michael was on Watson Fellowship. Includes an excerpt from his letter.

Correspondence with family, 1977-ca. 1996 .
Box 5
Scope and Contents

Correspondence with parents, grandparents Callahan and others while a student at Haverford and later notes

Teresa Miriam Van Hoy, 1979.
Box 5
Scope and Contents

Affectionate letters from Michael's older sister.

Teresa Miriam Van Hoy, 1980-1989.
Box 5
Teresa Miriam Van Hoy , 1990-1992.
Box 5
Scope and Contents

Teresa and her husband, J. Roberto Hasfura-Buenaga, an engineer and Professor of Mathematics at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, moved to San Antonio to be close to his family in Mexico and where she could study Latin American history in graduate school. While nine months pregnant with her second son Andrés, in 1992 Teresa started graduate school at University of Texas, Austin. Sons Alejandro and Andres Michael Levering Hasfura were raised bi-culturally.

Teresa Miriam Van Hoy , 1994.
Box 5
Teresa Miriam Van Hoy , 1996.
Box 5
Teresa Miriam Van Hoy , 1997.
Box 5
Teresa Miriam Van Hoy , 1997-1999.
Box 5
Teresa Miriam Van Hoy , 2000-2005.
Box 5
Letters from nephews.
Box 5
Scope and Contents

Letters from nephews Alejandro and Andres Hasfura

Letters of introduction from Asheboro Monthly Meeting, 1985-08-14.
Box 6
Scope and Contents

Certifying his membership in good standing before he left for Africa. Signed in reply by General Secretary of East Africa Yearly Meeeting and Clerk of Friends Meeting Nairobi.

Kristi Monette Thygesen , 1986-1999 .
Box 6
Scope and Contents

Catholic Relief Service cCamp in Honduras. Student at Universityof Oregon and married Jeff McMorran in 1994

Correspondence received , 1986-1989.
Box 6
Scope and Contents

Post college. Includes letters from his parents while he traveled in Central America. Thomas Watson Foundation, Costa Rica, working in Washington, D.C., at Friends Committee on National Legislation, then in Oregon. Letter from Friends United Meetin noting that he would not be reappointed to governing board because his 6 year term was up

Randy Crutchfield, 1984-1989.
Box 6
Letters from high school friends , 1983-1999.
Box 6
Scope and Contents

Randy and Lori Crutchfield and Richard Meissner, former high school teacher and coach.

Ralph and Patricia Levering , 1977-2004.
Box 6
Scope and Contents

Ralph and Patricia Levering of Davidson, North Carolina, Michael's aunt and uncle. He was a history professor and she a chaplain to cancer patients

Ellen Brodsky to Michael and Judy , 1986-1989.
Box 6
Scope and Contents

Including letters sent from Zaire

Grandma Levering , 1990-1994.
Box 6
Scope and Contents

Family mimeograph letters include a description of Michael and Judy's 1990 wedding

Levering family, 1996-1999.
Box 6
Scope and Contents

Mary and Merry. Betsy, and others including the Dawsons, friends of the Leverings

Sam Snipes and other friends of Michael, 1986-1991.
Box 6
Ed and Bonnie Snyder , 1990-2000.
Box 6
Scope and Contents

Ed was Michael's boss at Friends Committee on National Legislation. They were members Acadia Friends Meeting and Ed is author of Witness in Washington.

Education: Elementary and high school, 1967-1981.
Box 8
Scope and Contents

Includes student essays, report cards, etc. Greene Street Friends School, Girls' High School, Philadelphia

"Save the Children" correspondence , 1978-1981.
Box 8
Scope and Contents

Judy's note enclosed, dated 8/26/2016, explainsL "As a teenager, Judy sponsored a child in Korea via Save the Children. Judy sent about $16/mo...."

Temple University studies, ca. 1979-1983 .
Box 8
Scope and Contents

Undergraduate and graduate school student papers

College and graduate school, 1980-1986.
Box 8
Scope and Contents

From a young age, Judy's activities reflected awareness and concern for social justice issues and peace. File includes letter from clerk of Elgon Religious Society of Friends, Kenya, expressing gratitude for her visit to their Quarterly Meeting.

Miscellaneous - College, student teaching, 1980-1981.
Box 8
Scope and Contents

College papers and student teaching at Germantown Friends School

"Living Color" and other poster designs, 1981-1982.
Box 8
War Tax banner, ca. 1983.
Box 8
Peace is a Group Effort, 1983-2000.
Box 8
Scope and Contents

Judy's original design, photo, bumper stickers and letters from senators, photographs, copyright registration, etc. Design has been used around the world

Peace is a Group Effort banner.
Box 8
Scope and Contents

Pattern for 3' x 8' banner

Copyright registration "Living Color", 1982-1983.
Box 8
Scope and Contents

Artwork. Judy (Judith Anne) Cunningham

Witness for Peace banner project, 1984.
Box 8
Nicaragua banner patterns.
Box 9
U.S. - German Friendship/Friendship without Missiles, 1983.
Box 9
Scope and Contents

Banner design

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting articles and notices , 1985-2004.
Box 9
Scope and Contents

Articles and biographical on Judy Cunningham/(after 1990, Judy Van Hoy)

Faith Tabernacle School, 1989-1992.
Box 9
Scope and Contents

Judy taught 3rd grade. The school was located at 5th and Erie Avenue, Philadelphia. It was sponsored by church that believed in faith-based healing and rejected vaccinations. It was heavily impacted by the U.S. measles epidemic in the early 1990s.

Measles epidemic, Faith Tabernacle, Philadelphia, 1991.
Box 9
Scope and Contents

Judy was teaching at the Tabernacle during the epidemic in which five children died. Clippings.

Student correspondence, Faith Tabernacle School, 1992-1997.
Box 9
Scope and Contents

Letters from her 3rd grade students at Faith Tabernacle. Some of the students continued to write to her years after having her as their teacher.

Greene Street Monthly Meeting School, ca. 1994-1995.
Box 9
Scope and Contents

The School was founded and sponsored by Greene Street Monthly Meeting, located at 5511 Greene Street, Philadelphia. Judy taught there briefly.

Heather Reinert correspondence , 1993-1997.
Box 9
Scope and Contents

Heather had been Judy's student at Faith Tabernacle School, and they continued as pen pals. File includes a photocopy of Judy's 1997 letter in which she writes to Heather about how carefully she had considered marriage before deciding to marry Michael Van Hoy in 1990.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Workcamp office space renovation, 2001-2002.
Box 10
Judy Van Hoy miscellaneous, 2004-2014.
Box 10
Scope and Contents

Includes her talk on Same Sex Marriage, presented at TESOL Conference

Designs for banners and quilts, ca. 2003.
Box 10
Scope and Contents

Designs and photographs

St. Barnabas Episcopal School, Germantown, Philadelphia , 2003-2006.
Box 10
Scope and Contents

Judy taught 4th grade. The school closes abruptly in 2006

Teaching , 2006-2014.
Box 10
Scope and Contents

Judy Van Hoy homeschooled a student, Maya Abrahim, 2006-2007. She wored as an aide to special needs student Sophy Jarka-Sellers at Germantown Friends School, 2007-2014

Community College of Philadelphia courses, 2008-2009.
Box 10
M.A. in teaching English as a second language (ESL), 2010-2012.
Box 10
Scope and Contents

MATESOL. Student papers. Most interesting is paper on "Mthatha Language Attitudes," with field work by Jane Swart Mgamelo, Judy's friend from African Workcamps. Another papers compared the experiences of children in Native American Boarding Schools and schools under No Child Left Behind guide.

Haverford College application.
Box 11
Scope and Contents

High School transcripts and notes for his application to Haverford College

Report cards, transcripts.
Box 11
Social justice concerns, 1978-1996.
Box 11
Scope and Contents

letters to family,support for Mumia Abu-Jamal, etc.

National Council of Churches , 1981.
Box 11
Scope and Contents

National Council of Churches talk and related material. Michael Van Hoy was appointed as a Friends United Meeting representative. Kara Cole, Administrative Secretary of FUM, invited him to attend National Council of Churches Meeting in Cleveland. Includes excerpts of letters home during her trip to Kenya, etc.

Songwriting, Asheboro.
Box 11
Scope and Contents

Michael was a musician and songwriter in high school. Original copies

Michael Van Hoy songs, typed.
Box 11
Miscellaneous songs, fragments.
Box 11
College and earlier writings, ca. 1982-1984.
Box 11
College course notebooks.
Box 11
Watson Fellowship, 1985-1986.
Box 12
Scope and Contents

Application and papers. Following graduation from Haverfordd College, Michael was awarded a prestigious Watson Fellowship to study Christian Ecumenical Organization in 1985-1986, traveling the Africa and Latin America.

Kenya to South Africa Overland and South America at a Glance.
Box 12
Scope and Contents

Typescripts and handwritten drafts of his essay Overland and South America At a Glance

Watson essays and other writings.
Box 12
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Representatives in Urban Ministry, 1997.
Box 12
Scope and Contents

Report of trip as PYM Representatives in Urban Ministry. Judy and Michael's trip to Guilford College's Religious Emphasis Week

Million Black Man's March, 1995.
Box 12
Scope and Contents

Journal of his experience to Million Black Man's March

Writings , 1990s.
Box 12
Scope and Contents

Writings while working at Philadelphia Workcamps. Also, memoir of taking his little brother to school, etc.

Notebooks kept while home schooling, etc.
Box 12
Scraps of journals , 1986-1988.
Box 12
Philadelphia Workcamp writings, correspondence.
Box 13
Michael Van Hoy speeches.
Box 13
Michael Van Hoy writings, ca. 2000-2014.
Box 13
Philadelphia Mennonite High School, 2001-2014.
Box 13
Scope and Contents

Foster son Romanze Smalls graduated from the School is 2003, and Michael taught there 2010-2014.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting employment, 1988-2003.
Box 13
Scope and Contents

Resumes and correspondence. Judy Van Hoy resigned as director of Workcamps in 2003. Also color snaphots of their 1990 wedding at Green Street Meeting House.

Friends Workcamps, 1985-2005.
Box 13
Scope and Contents

Includes related correspondence and memorial minute for David Richie who founded Friends Workcamp in Philadelphia in early 1950s and died in 2005.

Weeklong Workcamp report, 1997-10.
Box 13
Scope and Contents

Weeklong Workcamp with Guilford report

James Hamilton, 1985-1997.
Box 13
Scope and Contents

James A. Hamilton (1926-1997, long-time staff of Friends Workcamps

Kenya Workcamps, 1989-1992.
Box 13
Scope and Contents

Handwritten letter from Judy Cunningham, August 4, 1989, addressed to Dear Friends (draft?) from Workcamp, Mbale, Western Kenya. Also includes the visa application for Judith Monyi, Kenyan, who worked in Philadelphia 1992; Judy and she became friends when Judy worked in Kenyan Workcamps.

Kenya memorabilia, 1983-1989.
Box 13
Scope and Contents

Memorabilia from Kenya, receipts, etc. Photos separated.

Scope and Contents

Consists of correspondence, pre- and post- trip, possible iteneraries, readings, Rainbow Ministry Summit, itinerary, memorabilia, emails, and photos of trip organized by Michael and Judy Van Hoy.

Green Street Monthly Meeting South Africa Trip.
Box 14
Scope and Contents

Itinerary, memorabilia, emails, photos of trip organized by Michael and Judy Van Hoy

Correspondence.
Box 16
Proposals and Reports, Letters to Parents, & Correspondence with Dick Betts.
Box 16
Quaker Peace Center, Other Correspondence .
Box 16
Readings on South Africa .
Box 16
Rainbow Ministry Summit.
Box 16
Possible Forms & Itineraries .
Box 16
Trip Itinerary .
Box 16
Post-Trip Finances.
Box 16
Education Resource Schedule.
Box 16
George School.
Box 16
Miscellaneous Correspondence, Searching for Contacts.
Box 16
Miscellaneous Photos, Receipts, and Pass Books.
Box 16
China Workcamps, 2003-2007.
Box 14
Scope and Contents

Notes, emails, articles. The Van Hoys organized trips to China in 2003 and 2007. Includes notes and notebooks. Michael Van Hoy was hired by the AFSC in 2007 to serve as Director.

China memorabilia , 2003, 2007.
Box 14
Scope and Contents

Includes a CD and photographs, correspondence

Plays written for Green Street Monthly Meeting , 2006-2015.
Box 14

Agnes Boyd (a.k.a. Sandy Williams), 1986-2006.
Box 15
Scope and Contents

After Agnes Boyd, also known as Sandy Williams, suffered a breakdown in 1991, her minor children were placed under the care of the Philadelphia Department of Human Services. The Van Hoys were friends and were granted legal custody of two of her sons: Romanze and Waiton in August 1991. Waiton left in 1993, Romanze lived with them until he graduated.

Romanze Smalls .
Box 15
Scope and Contents

Includes a photo of Judy at Romanze's wedding and a schedule for home schooling lessons. Romanze Jeffrey Smalls was born Jan. 7 1985. Michael and Judy were granted custody in August 1991 for Romanze and his older brother Waiton arrived in August 1991. Waiton left thier home in 1993.

Waiton Farrell school papers , etc., 1992-1993.
Box 15
Scope and Contents

Sandy'a son, born 1986 who lived briefly with the Van Hoys

Gabriel Boyd, ca. 1991-1995 .
Box 15
Scope and Contents

Gabriel "Gabe" Boyd was Sandy William's oldest child and a student at Girard College in 1991. After graduation from Girard College High School, he studied briefly at York College and then joined the Marine Corps

Chan William.
Box 15
Scope and Contents

Son of Sandy Williams and married Mai Nguyen.

Agnes Boyd and Theasha Boyd custody materials.
Box 15
Scope and Contents

Theasha (born 1998) was the child of Theasha, the youner sister of Chan, Gabem, Waiton, and Romanze. Agnes (Sandy Williams) was Theasha's grandmother.

Foster training material , ca. 1991-1998.
Box 15
Neemah Clemens, Philadelphia, 1988-1992.
Box 15
Scope and Contents

Judy met Naeemah as a child in Friends Weekend Workcamps in Philadelphia. Includes photocopies of letters from Judy who mentored her.

Andrew Cunningham, 1996-1997.
Box 15
Scope and Contents

Judy's brother. He was an accountant who helped John G. Bennett's New Era Foundation Ponzi scheme. The Van Hoys helped with his three children while he was in prison, and Andrew, his wife, and three children lived temporarily with them when he was released from prison.

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