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News Release: Peace Walker Visits Olney Friends School
September 20-22, 2005, Olney Friends School, Barnesville, OH, hosted Shelley Newby, a Quaker from New Castle, IN. On September 3, 2005, Newby began a 540 mile "walk for peace" from New Castle, IN to Washington D.C. Newby hopes to arrive in Washington D.C. by mid-October.
While at Olney Friends School, Newby visited with faculty and students and participated in the Peace Studies elective course offered this quarter. When asked by Alice Uwimbabazi, 11th grader, what she hoped to gain from this walk, Newby answered, "I hope that people's lives will change and that Americans and the government will realize a need for positive action." Newby has been very clear that the point of her walk is not to protest the war in Iraq. Instead she wished to take positive action and decided to begin the walk for something she believed in, the ideal of peace.
The peaceful resolution of conflict is a guiding principle of Quaker tradition. Olney Friends School was founded by Quakers in 1837. While providing a college preparatory education, the school still promotes basic Quaker values such as truthfulness, simplicity, acceptance of individual differences and non-violence. Olney Friends School is a co-educational day and boarding school for grades 9-12. To read letters from Shelley Newby, written during her journey, go to www.fum.org.
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