September/October 1985 RAIN Page 3 dance in the ideas and work of Griscom Morgan, who is interviewed in the following article. Griscom and his father, the late Arthur Morgan, have done perhaps as much as anyone in America to cultivate community. Community Service Inc., founded by the Morgans in 1942, bases its work on nearly half a century of practical experience with communities, plus extensive knowledge of community life in other cultures and other periods of history. A review of the new edition of Arthur Morgan's classic. The Small Community, accompanies the interview with the younger Morgan. Trying to build a sense of transnational community across a historical schism of distrust and fear is the subject of Joel Schatz's article, "Reflections Along the U.S.-Soviet Frontier." Perhaps the more we begin to see the Soviet people as "us," rather than "them," the harder it will be for our government to convince us to go along with its elaborate, expensive, and dangerous plans to protect us from "them." Building community involves working together, and often this is done in some kind of formal organization. The better skills we have for working in these organizations, the better we will be able to achieve our goals. This is why we offer "Tools for Better Meetings," a useful set of guidelines for an activity almost all organizations engage in. Expect to find more of these organizational how-to pieces in future issues. Staffing Status After a fairly long process of searching for a new editor, it was decided that the job would be much better handled by a two-person team. It was also decided that I would make up one half of that team, but we are still looking for the other half. If you are interested and have a strong background in community concerns, request a job description from Stephen Schneider, Center for Urban Education, 0245 SW Bancroft, Portland, OR 97201. We hope to find our ideal co-editor by sometime early next year. In the interim, Ralph Coulson, who assisted with the last issue, has been hired for a six-month position. Welcome, Ralph. The other new face around here is our intern, Rebecca Golden. She has been in charge of managing much of the information flow around here (requesting books, magazines, and organizational literature for review, filing things once they come in, and so on). —ELS Subscription Expiration For those of you who wonder: The last issue of your subscription is indicated by the four-digit number in the upper right- hand corner of your mailing label (for instance, 12 03 means your sub expires with volume 12, number 3). We do our best to notify you when your sub is expiring. 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STATE ZIP Mail to: RAIN, 3116 North WUIiams, Portland, OR 97227 Index to Volume XI Vol. XI, No. 1, November/December 1984 The Transformation as Sandbox Syndrome, by Michael Marien, 4 Wild and Wooly Vegetables, by Robert Kourik, 11 Golden Rules of Edible Landscaping, by Robert Kourik, 14 Solar Power: The Promise Fades, by Roger Poliak, 15 Framing Hexagonal Floors: A Lesson, by Richard Conviser, 20 Ecology of Everyday Life, by F. Lansing Scott, 23 Vol. XI, No. 2, January/February 1985 Military Spending Drains Rural Economies, by J. David Colfax, 4 War Tax Resistance, by Ann and Bruce Borquist, 6 A.T. Coes to Grad School, by David Biddle, 1,0 Building a New Economy: Three Models: ARABLE, by Mary Vogel, 13 EarthBank, by Ellen Chilarducci, 15 LETS, by Kris Nelson, 17 Hike, Bike, and Bus Week, by Dorothy Mack, 19 Teaching Children, Reaching the Community, by Debbie Habib and Kim Knorr, 20 Should We Pave Our Dead End Road?, by Kirn Stafford, 24 Community Information Technology, by Steve Johnson, 26 Vol. XI, No. 3, March/April 1985 Land, Housing, and Community Finance, an interview with Chuck Matthei, 6 Bioregional Balancing Act, by Carlotta Colette, 20 The Regional Council in Court, by Ralph Cavanagh, 22 The Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program (In a Nutshell), by Carlotta Collette, 23 An Affirmative Neighborhood Information Plan, 26 Community Information Technology, 28 Vol. XI, No. 4, May/|une 1985 Three Models for Community Development: Housing Trust Funds, by David Paul Rosen, 6 Neighborhood Housing Services, by Annette Osso, 7 Invest in Neighborhoods, by Rob Baird, 8 Recycling Plutonium: Inappropriate Technology for a Sustainable Non-Future, by Chuck Bell, 12 Watching the World with Lester Brown, 16 Cultural Clearcutting: The Human Costs of Tropical Deforestation, by Thompson R. Smith, 23 Community Information Technology, 28 Vol. XI, No. 5, July/August 1985 Theme; Planet, Community, and Person—Working Toward Sustainability Globescope: Practicing Planetary Populism (in Portland), by Dwight Wilson, 4 Collectively Crafting the Globescope Action Plan, by Jeff Strang, 7 Uprooting World Hunger, a talk by Frances Moore Lappe, 8 Growing a Bioregional Politics, a talk by Peter Berg, 14 Trimming Your Waste: Potentials for Resource Recovery and Recycling, by Jerry Powell, 19 Taking Charge of Our Lives: A Review Essay, by F. Lansing Scott, 23 Community Information Technology, 28 Vol. XI, No. 6, September/October 1985 John Deere and the Bereavement Counselor: Turning Community Into Desert, by John McKnight, 6 Family, Community, and Economy, an interview with Griscom Morgan, 11 Reflections Along the U.S./Soviet Frontier, by Joel Schatz, 19 Tools for Better Meetings, by Barbara George, 24 Community Information Technology, 28
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