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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 linear ft. (15 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.

Judy Van Hoy sorted most of the correspondence by correspondent.

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.

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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

Archival Resource Key. 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

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

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

Archival Resource Key. Mary Jo Fina , 1980-2000.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. "The Six Correspond" , 1981-1983.
Box 1
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Classmates of study abroad in Greece?

Archival Resource Key. Ault family.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

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

Archival Resource Key. 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.

Archival Resource Key. 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.

Archival Resource Key. 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.

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

Judy's brother and sister-in-law

Archival Resource Key. 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.

Archival Resource Key. William Cunningham correspondence , 1996-1997.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. 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.

Archival Resource Key. 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.

Archival Resource Key. Letters from Jane Swart, Cape Town, South Africa, 1987-1988.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Jane Swart, staff of the Quaker Peace Center

Archival Resource Key. 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.

Archival Resource Key. 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.

Archival Resource Key. 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.

Archival Resource Key. 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.

Archival Resource Key. Judy's letters to her parents from Kenya , 1988-1989.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. 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.

Archival Resource Key. 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.

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

Lara Broadfield, Lorna Cameron, Lucas Ford

Archival Resource Key. 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.

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

Karen Lassman-Eul and others

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

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

Archival Resource Key. 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.

Archival Resource Key. Rika Bauer, Germany , 1988-1989.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. 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.

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

Andrew Barclay had participated in 1987 International Workcamp. He committed 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.

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

Friend from Greece

Archival Resource Key. 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.

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

Kenya Workcamp participant and future PYM staff member.

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

Burr, Edgerton, Davenport (GSFS), Dutot

Archival Resource Key. 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

Archival Resource Key. 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

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

Haertwig Ficker, Germany, etc.

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

Friends from teaching at Faith Tabernacle.

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

Not sorted.

Archival Resource Key. Letters to grandparents .
Box 5
Scope and Contents

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

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

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

Archival Resource Key. 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.

Archival Resource Key. 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

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

Affectionate letters from Michael's older sister.

Archival Resource Key. Teresa Miriam Van Hoy, 1980-1989.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. 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.

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

Letters from nephews Alejandro and Andres Hasfura

Archival Resource Key. 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.

Archival Resource Key. 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

Archival Resource Key. 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

Archival Resource Key. Randy Crutchfield, 1984-1989.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. 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.

Archival Resource Key. 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

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

Including letters sent from Zaire

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

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

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

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

Archival Resource Key. Sam Snipes and other friends of Michael, 1986-1991.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. 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.

Archival Resource Key. 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

Archival Resource Key. "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...."

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

Undergraduate and graduate school student papers

Archival Resource Key. 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.

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

College papers and student teaching at Germantown Friends School

Archival Resource Key. "Living Color" and other poster designs, 1981-1982.
Box 8
Archival Resource Key. War Tax banner, ca. 1983.
Box 8
Archival Resource Key. 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

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

Pattern for 3' x 8' banner

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

Artwork. Judy (Judith Anne) Cunningham

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

Banner design

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

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

Archival Resource Key. 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.

Archival Resource Key. 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.

Archival Resource Key. 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.

Archival Resource Key. 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.

Archival Resource Key. 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.

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

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

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

Designs and photographs

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

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

Archival Resource Key. 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

Archival Resource Key. Community College of Philadelphia courses, 2008-2009.
Box 10
Archival Resource Key. 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.

Archival Resource Key. Haverford College application.
Box 11
Scope and Contents

High School transcripts and notes for his application to Haverford College

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

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

Archival Resource Key. 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.

Archival Resource Key. Songwriting, Asheboro.
Box 11
Scope and Contents

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

Archival Resource Key. Michael Van Hoy songs, typed.
Box 11
Archival Resource Key. Miscellaneous songs, fragments.
Box 11
Archival Resource Key. College and earlier writings, ca. 1982-1984.
Box 11
Archival Resource Key. College course notebooks.
Box 11
Archival Resource Key. 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.

Archival Resource Key. 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

Archival Resource Key. Watson essays and other writings.
Box 12
Archival Resource Key. 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

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

Journal of his experience to Million Black Man's March

Archival Resource Key. Writings , 1990s.
Box 12
Scope and Contents

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

Archival Resource Key. Notebooks kept while home schooling, etc.
Box 12
Archival Resource Key. Scraps of journals , 1986-1988.
Box 12
Archival Resource Key. Philadelphia Workcamp writings, correspondence.
Box 13
Archival Resource Key. Michael Van Hoy speeches.
Box 13
Archival Resource Key. Michael Van Hoy writings, ca. 2000-2014.
Box 13
Archival Resource Key. 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.

Archival Resource Key. 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.

Archival Resource Key. 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.

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

Weeklong Workcamp with Guilford report

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

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

Archival Resource Key. 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.

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

Memorabilia from Kenya, receipts, etc. Photos separated.

Archival Resource Key. Green Street Monthly Meeting South Africa trip, 2001.
Box 14
Scope and Contents

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

Archival Resource Key. 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.

Archival Resource Key. China memorabilia , 2003, 2007.
Box 14
Scope and Contents

Includes a CD and photographs, correspondence

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

Archival Resource Key. 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.

Archival Resource Key. 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.

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

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

Archival Resource Key. 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

Archival Resource Key. Chan William.
Box 15
Scope and Contents

Son of Sandy Williams and married Mai Nguyen.

Archival Resource Key. 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.

Archival Resource Key. Foster training material , ca. 1991-1998.
Box 15
Archival Resource Key. 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.

Archival Resource Key. 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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