50 YEARS
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CELEBRATING FIFTY YEARS OF SUBUD IN THE USA
1958 | 1959-1968 | 1969-1978 | 1979-1988 | 1989-1998 | 1999-2008 | The Future?
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Subud came to the United States in 1958. Ever since then we have been doing latihan and growing and sharing our lives. You are invited to share your stories and pictures here.
Please send your stories and photos!
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to be added to this page. Tell us a personal story, or just tell us when you were opened. Tell us when you started an enterprise and what happened. What do you want to share? We'll put your photos and stories in the year they occurred.
When it comes to telling stories, we are particularly interested in anecdotes about unexpected things that happened to you, critical moments in your Subud life, and defining moments when you realized how valuable Subud is in your life. You do not have to have been in Subud a long time. Your story does not have to be about Bapak. These are stories about your journey, your experience, your life with your brothers and sisters.
Please help us out! If you can identify the decade or year of a photo, or if you can identify people in photos, please send us that information.
THIS IS INDEED THE FIFTIETH YEAR OF SUBUD IN THE USA! CELEBRATE! Love, Melinda
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Photographs of Bapak and his family are courtesy of Simon Cherpitel
THE LATIHAN COMES TO THE USA: 1958
Opened in 1958: Harun Taormina, Rasjad and Mardiah Tarantino, Olivia and John Panopoulos, Peter and Rosina Filippelli…who else?
Harlinah Longcroft
HOW AND WHEN DID SUBUD START IN THE U.S.A.?
(The following is a summary of a far longer and more detailed chapter containing many interviews, in the History of Subud, Vol. 1 Book 3. This book has not yet been published. It is currently being compiled and written.)
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Asa and Oswald Lake
Bapak's first visit to Caifornia was to San Francisco in 1958, in the spring. The two people who were the main arrangers of this were George Fields in SF and Earl Robinson in LA. John Panopoulos (Oswald believes that he was known at the time as "Nick the Greek") and Simon Kelly are two of the folks opened that year.
Harun Taormina
God, there has to be something else!
By the time I was 35, I had a nightclub in San Francisco, an apartment in one of the city’s great old mansions, a redheaded girlfriend, and a life that was one big roller coaster ride.
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Olivia Panopoulos
Irene James–beautiful and full of grace
Irene James–beautiful and full of grace–was the most influential person in my beginning years in Subud. From Europe, at Bapak’s behest, Irene and her husband Lutfi arrived in San Francisco in 1958 to support the beginnings of Subud there and in the wake of J.G. Bennett’s visit earlier in the year.
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Tony Bright-Paul
Remembering Bob Prestie
[Editor's note: Bob Priestie was instrumental in arranging for Bapak's first visit to the USA. In 1958, once funds became available to pay for Bapak's travel, Bob arranged all of the travel plans for Bapak and his family. Bob arrived in San Franciso in advance of Bapak, and gave a talk about Subud soon after he arrived. The first person opened in the USA was opened by Bob. Bob was instrumental in continuing to help organize Bapak's visits to California in Subud's early years in the USA.]
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Simon Kelly
Subud, and how I found it
In 1957 I was living in Berkeley as a dropout from the UC@B Graduate student of Music, doing all the activities of a beatnik wannabe: parties, coffee shop philosophical discussions, casual love affairs, drinking cheap red wine, smoking marijuana, etc. etc. Gradually I started to feel a real lack in my comfy life, a dissatisfaction which grew towards despair about being stuck in a kind of Hell.
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THE FIRST DECADE: 1959 - 1968
1959
Coombe Springs World Congress Aug 9-30
Asa and Oswald Lake
Our first years in Subud
Erling Week, Francis von Kahler, Ferri Farkas (east coast), Earl Robinson, Bob Prestie, and George Fields (west coast) were those who were responsible for first bringing Bapak to the USA. In 1959, Bapak returned to Los Angeles and to San Francisco. We were opened in 1959 in Los Angeles.
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Helen Richman
Guess what we did on Howard's first birthday?
The year was 1959 in New York City. I received a call from my dear friend, Osanna Gooding, (then Phyliss Love McGee) asking if I would like to attend a talk on a spiritual group called Subud by a British physicist, named John Bennett, at the French Institute. Since I was alone that evening (my husband, Peter Mark, was in Los Angeles shooting a television film), and I had a baby sitter for my infant son, Howard, I said I would like to go.
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Sonia Owens
My beginnings in Subud in NYC
In the fall of 1958 my husband Raymond and I found Mr. Bennett’s book Concerning Subud at the Edgar Cayce library at the Association for Research and Enlightenment in Virginia Beach. We were very interested, but found out that Subud was only in London at the time.
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Rozak von Hohenstein
The Story Of My Opening
On Saturday, May 16, 1959, I attended a talk given by John Bennett in Chicago. His talk was a kind of elaboration on his book, Concerning Subud. He invited us to return for more information on the next day. At the end of his talk on Sunday, he invited all of us to return that evening if we wished to receive the latihan.
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Lola Stone
Sniffing Out Subud
It was 1964 and once again Long Island hosted a World’s Fair. I headed for the Indonesian Pavilion--this time knowing what it was that I sought in my multiple visits to the Dutch East Indies exhibit at the 1939 Fair. Then I had a student’s pass and for my 20 plus visits to the fair grounds, I never missed the chance to visit and marvel at its exotic cultural display. After it closed, I corresponded with an Indonesian teacher named Abdul Latif whom I had met there until the war ended all possibility of mail getting through.
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1960
Some of the people opened in 1960 (should your name be added to this list?): Rachelle Helga Andjkjar, Hardwin Blanchard, Muchtar Bohler, Ann Cary, Robert Cary, Stuart Comley, Vita Dodson, Rosalind Fedderly, Mary Gibson, Muftiah Hateley, Hellene Higgins Chapman, Donna Himmelbach-Pete, Rachel Margraf, Paula Mason, Lydia Maurey, John McCall, Margorie McCall, Alwyn McCreight, Rasjad Mills, Matthew Moir, Alice Mullin, John Murray, Dorris Oesterreich, Just Pope, Howard Reda, Luscian Schurwanz, Mursalin Spencer, Ramlan Williamson, Hezekiah Wilson.
1961
Sjarifuddin Harris
Early days in Subud
I was 21 yrs old when I was opened. It was Feb 11th, 1961, according to Jarred (Sauphan) Mayes who was opened the same evening. We were at the home of John Cooke, overlooking the ocean from the Carmel highlands. The group included Lucas Kipp, Harlan McWillis, Sam Tio, Lucia Chung from Big Sur, Lilius Adlerkron, and Rosak & Rojana Bisel from Carmel Valley.
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Hamilton Camp warns us about the "Pride of Man"
1962
1963
Briarcliff World Congress, New York July 8-25
Olaf Bowman
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Olaf Bowman
Opened July 25, 1963 at Hope Street in Los Angeles by Leonard Parsons and Randolph Buckmaster. My incredible journey of almost 45 years of latihan, meetings, congresses and kejiwaan gatherings has brought me in touch with many brothers and sisters and an inner connection with love and respect which cannot be described. This picture of me was taken the summer of 2005.
Peter Mark Richman
Filming Bapak
Oswald Lake asked me to shoot a film of Bapak, during his USA visit in 1963. I was rather shy about intruding in Bapak’s space and privacy and resisted, but Oswald insisted if I remember correctly. So, after we got permission from Bapak I slung my dependable 8 mm Bolex camera over my shoulder and greeted Bapak...
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Rashad Pollard
Falling Into Subud–a journey
People seem to join Subud for as many reasons as there are members. I appear to have come from the school that had no apparent reason at all. In my youth I had some significant interest in the Church of England having been sent, at an early age, to a boarding school that developed such interests in a somewhat high church format. The experience, to me, had no real intellectual value. It was simply a matter of being engaged in attractive ritual, and I found that ritual, on occasion, truly moving.
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Abraham Spivak
Darkness at Subud New York
In the summer of 1963 the Subud World Congress was held in Briarcliff, New York, just north of New York City. As was Bapak’s custom, he traveled from Indonesia and visited Subud groups in many places along the way before staying in New York City just prior to attending the world congress to be held in Briarcliff in a few days or so. I was opened about two years before that. I didn’t know much about Subud when I started to come to probationer meetings (“probationer” was the term applied to us) and quickly found that those called “helpers” could not tell me much about what was referred to as the latihan. That didn’t faze me, and I put in my three months.
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1964
Melinda Wallis
My Life (Is) In Subud
It was 1964, I had reached the age of 23, I was in the dumper. I had rebelled from my family and was seriously drinking. I think I was a type: the “overly protected, educated, upper-middle class inexperienced” girl! Still, I had an “illegitimate baby”, as it was harshly described in those days, whom I had put up for adoption. This was a most grievous experience and I was in deep pain, and was desperate. “There HAS to be a God out there somewhere!” was my only hope.
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Muhammad Isman Kanafsky
How I Received the Latihan and Found Subud
I was lying in bed late one night, while still living with my parents in Brooklyn, New York. Everyone was asleep, but I was having trouble falling asleep because my life was very miserable and I couldn't stop thinking about it. In fact I was so miserable I was thinking about possibly killing myself, although I'm sure I would never have done that, but still I couldn't stop thinking about it. Suddenly I heard a loud voice inside of my head...
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Halimah Felt
Stranger lady in latihan with snakey moving hair
I want to tell you a little story about a very early Subud experience I had--probably over forty years ago now. It happened in San Francisco, probably 1965 or 1966 perhaps; I really hadn’t been opened very long--Nov 11, 1964 was the date of my opening there. What happened was that a young woman who hadn’t actually been opened got into the latihan hall with us during our regular members’ latihan.
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1965
1966
Some of the people opened in 1966 (should your name be added to this list?): Ruben Andrews, Rosalind Bellows, Berta Benally, Richard Bennett, Rasjidah Berger, Ellice Bleak, Alexandra Boyer, Lorna Boyle, Rohana Broadnax, Bertina Busch, Noel Busch, Halima Clark, Maria Contessa, Vernon Contessa, Rosalinde Core, Lillia Davidson, Lydia Feltman, Rasjidah Franklin, Faridah Freeman, Diana Frye, Mark Frye, Mardiah Gleeson, Redmond Gleeson, Elisha Gullixson, Marleen Hesse, Roland Jacopetti, Manuel Jamison, Harold Jeffers, Harland Kessaris, Terry Kirkman, Ida Kwiatkowski, Rose Beth Levno, Mursalin McMillan, Henrietta Music, Harris Nelson, Rosada Nolan, Joseph Nowack, Kendrick Petty, AI Pham, Anh Pham, Rukman Pullom, Joel Ramsey, Halimah Bellows Rochfort, Susannah Rosenthal, Stephanie Schurik, Lusana Stokes, Arthur Teichman.
1967
Tokyo World Congress July 24-Aug 1
George Helmer
Subud Woodstock – 40 YEARS!
Late in the summer of 1967, I was managing a rock band of college friends – and friends of friends – The Joyfull Noise – and we moved from Chicago to Woodstock, Vermont. Shortly thereafter, David Hanni, one of the band’s leaders, found and was impressed by John Bennett’s Concerning Subud, as he was making his way through my mother’s large collection of occult literature (my parents Charles and Lucy – later Stella – had been opened in 1965). She told him there were Subud “helpers,” Maynard and Lilliana MacDonald, living and teaching nearby...
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1968
Marlena Knill
Coming to Subud
I came to San Francisco from New York in July of 1966 with a strong internal feeling that I was going to make a drastic change in myself and my life. I had been an art student at Pratt Institute in NYC and spent a lot of time in bars, night clubs and disco techs, and trying on various personas. Who was I anyway? I believed I was an atheist. Soon after arriving in SF I starting seeing a man (a renegade Subud member) who told me I should come to a meeting sometime, that it was so cool with people rolling around on the floor and standing on chairs and barking like dogs and “you come out feeling so good”. It sounded like the Holy Rollers to me and I was ‘not amused’.
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THE SECOND DECADE: 1969-1978
1969
Some of the people opened in 1969 (should your name be added to this list?): David Akins, Margaret Aldis, Simon Andrews, Halimah Ashley, Renata Bachelor, Maria Baker, Maia Berens, Mary Bond, Vivien Burnett, Helaine Burrows, Gerald Carter, Phil Caylor, David Clark, Maya Clemes, Marcella Cooke, Lionnell Covert, Luzita Davila, Raymond Devine, Honora Windeler Drew, Michelle Engelbrecht, Roger Fleischer, Luqman Fletcher, Leonard Greenberg, Hadidjah Gregory, Yen Haddad, Sulfiati Harris, Hamilton Helmer, Lalia Helmer, Hamidatun Karapetian, Joseph Koach, Arianne Laidlaw, Levi Lemberger, Rohana LoSchiavo, Daniela Luer, Maya Machado, Prisca Maier, Halimah Martin, Rachmat Martin, Michael McClain, Deanna McFadden, Daniel Muth, Peter Neal, Ning Sih Nguyen, Valerie Northup, Hadijah O'Bar, Leonard Parsons, Laura Paterson, Helena Pittman, Halimah Polk, Latimah Pollard, Hosanna Quintin, Icsan Reynolds, Roosmiwati Reynolds, Nicasio Romero, Latif Salom, Mark Sanelli, Marilyn Schirk, Sabrina Snedeker, Raina Snyder, James R. Stork, Sebastian Tiano, Tom Valpey, Pilar Walsh, Rinna Wolfe, Nathaniel Wolper.
Rasunah Marsden
Me & My Latihan
Subud sort of fell into my lap in the hippy days when I was 18 years old, during one of the more traumatic eras I have ever lived through. “Cousin,” a hippy friend known for hitchhiking back & forth across the country basically acted like everyone’s postman. One day he came by with a bunch of magazines he’d rescued from being thrown out - & dropped them into my lap. A little green booklet fell open with the story, “Cooking With Ibu”. A particular sentence jumped out at me, about how Ibu could “switch parts of her attention”. The other amazing thing was, I seemed to be “seeing” the story of Bapak & Ibu’s visit unfold while I was reading about it...
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National Dewan Meeting of Subud North America
Standing: Robert Bachelor, Harlan McWillis, Labasir English, Prio Hartono,
Hamidah White, Vita Dodson, Levana Solaini.
Seated: Joe Koach, Melinda Wallis(office manager), Russell Weinberg (vice chair), Oswald Lake (chair), Richard Staggers.
 Bapak in SF
1970
Subud North America becomes into Subud Canada, Subud Mexico, and Subud USA
Skymont photos circa 1970 Click here for photo album...
1971
Cilandak World Congress Aug 5-28
Danton Spivey
Illegitimati non carborundum
In 1968 on the 4th of July, I was an 18 year old midshipman on my first cruise from the Stanford Navy ROTC program. ROTC was the only way my family could afford to send me to Stanford, but by this time I had realized that I just could not kill anyone.
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Subud Members Visit Vegas (left to right): Labasir English, Hadidjah Gregory, Rosina Filippelli, Prio Hartono, Peter Filippelli, ?
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1972
1973
Some of the people opened in 1973 (should your name be added to this list?): Andre Allen, Helen Bailie, Fredrick Branchflower, Melanie Branchflower, Halinah Busack, James Busack, Lianne Card, Ethel Clairmont, Raina Cohen, Joanna Dokson, Kate Friedman, George Greenberg, Ron Hamady, Devin Harrison, Halimah Harrison, Jeffrey Harrison, Miriam Kaplan, James LeMon, Kathryn LeMon, Bachrun LoMele, Victoria McCarthy, Mark Miller, Lutfiya Murray, Rayma Norton, Fardiah Ramsay, Heinrich Roccoforte, Dainuri Rott, Rohanna Salom, Philip Schafer, Eric Strasberg, Miriam Strasberg, Dahlan Tobon, Rusmini Tran, Victoria Vesell, Sylvia Weinstein-McRae, Simon Whelan.
1974
Don Rollins
The Birth of Subud South
Subud South is officially opened! For those of Subud South and other parts of the United States and the Subud world who were lucky enough to attend, it was a grand occasion. The weekend was filled with a warmth and joy that created a sense of brotherhood I had never experienced before.
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1975
Wolfsburg World Congress June 14-21
Irena Garrett
And so it goes...
I started going to "probationer" meetings after years of searching for the fulfilment to my Catholic Faith. I mean I received Holy Communion and was "confirmed" but always knew deep inside somewhere that there was something more to "receiving". I was raised a devout Catholic. I used to fast, do acts of "'penance", and pray endlessly for apparitions by the Blessed Virgin Mary
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1976
Miryam Gordon
A Story
I was seventeen and started to think, all of a sudden, that I’d like to get opened in Subud. My father had joined when I was around six and I’d had a bunch of gatherings in our house to experience. (I remember one time we had a Subud member who was an opera singer do a couple of arias in the house. I wasn’t too thrilled at the time.)
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Bapak on Long Island
Bapak and Ibu Mastuti at New York Airport
1977
Bapak in Long Island NY 1977
Bapak and Ibu Rahayu at Woodstock, USA, in l977.
1978
THE THIRD DECADE: 1979-1988
1979
Toronto World Congress Aug 13-19
1980
Letter from Bapak to the attendies of the 1980 California Regional Congress...
1981
 Bapak 1981
1982
1983
Anugraha World Congress Aug 8 – 15
USA national helpers appointed in 1983. Front row: Mardiyah Taratino, Melanie Branchflower,
Renata Fitzpatrick, Halinah Busack (two absent). Back row: Hoan Toan Phan, Haryanto Troung,
Rashad Pollard, Sjarifuddin Harris, Lucian Parshall, Lucien McFadden.
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1984
1985
Some of the people opened in 1985 (should your name be added to this list?): Deborah Bailey, Janice H Barker, Carla Benejam, Ivanna Bevier-Warren, Laura Jayne Blainey, Andrea Blum, Sonja Borstner, Lloyd Brown, Dominique Callas, Linda Cohen, Rita Cohen, Steve Craig, Karen Delaney, M Mason Donovan, Marcia Doty, Liana Forest, Tod Giese, Bruce Glenn, Elaine Goldy, Ted Graves, Melanie Hendrickson, Chris Herbert, James Howard, Deborah Ann Jew, Robert N Jones, Rasunah Katz, Bernice Kaufmann, Laura Koontz, Alan Levy, Giuty-Zahra Mazi, Doug Miller, Flo Mizel, Laurence Ostrow, Latimah Peerwani, Sonja Pimentel, Giron Rene, Alan Roth, Betty Roth, Manena N. Seamons, Eric Duncan Sells, Edwin Spurgin, Desiree Stier, Carole Sugarman, Mashuri Waite.
1986
1987
Bapak passes from this world to the next
Michael Irwin
Excert from Zone 7 Trustee Report for 1987 (Subud USA is part of Zone 7)
It is now more than half a year since Bapak died. I did not realize in what strong but subtle ways his presence on earth had always been so supportive. I always took the view that he wanted us to stand on our own feet and I tried to follow his wish. Well, NOW we really have to. Nothing is frozen in stone. What is left is the steady presence of the latihan and the kaleidoscope of the temporal world, a place where we must now make decisions affecting the future of Subud knowing that we cannot, even if we wanted to as a last resort, turn to Bapak.
1988
THE FOURTH DECADE : 1989-1998
1989
Sydney World Congress Jan 16-30
1990
1991
Some of the people opened in 1991 (should your name be added to this list?): Minga Arizola, Laurie Babb, Matthew Baker, Latifat Balogun, Rebecca Banyas, Cathi Barchi, Lander Bernhard, Mark Blair, Lora Boyce, Beth Bradshaw, Ted Clement, Cary Cline, Julia Ann Colwell, Amalia Conti, Marco Conti, Nathanya Coonridge, Irene Cope, Cynthia C Crain, Akhrijatun T Cutler, Karla Dancy, Anne Davis, Anne Davis, Richard Dowaliby, Tom Dunham, Myrna Echols, Corinne Eisenhart, Linda Ellenson, Suzanne Farkas, Nadine Foster, Elizabeth Frey, Mutalib Glasgow, Judith Goldman, Cindy L Harman, Serena Heaslip, Donald Henze, Rita Hildebrandt, Matt Holt, Jerry Huhn, Robert Hungerman, Charlene Kay Hunter-Kirihara, Gloriana Ingram-Bate, Aaron Katz, Samuel Kierzenblat, Majorie Kimball, Mark Kimberly, Margaret Langrick, Joseph L Leonard, Hamid Lorette, Michele Maldeau, Barbara Matthews, Bill McCormick, William Milan, Alice Mount, Phyllis Novik, Barbara Ohm, Reynor Ibrahim Padilla, Melissa Panopoulos, Jack David Peruma, Rene Pesquiera, Huong Pham, Roekmini Pullom, Cass Redmon, Deborah Reilly, Jay F Ridgley, Richard Roth, Keith Ryan, Lucia Ryan, Mary Schaffer, Benjamin Schmid, Roberta Shaw, Serena Shaw, Frank E Snedeker, Christian Stepien, Adrienne Stone, Arthur Stone, Daniel Stralberg, Sylvia Stralberg, Habib Thornton, Margaret Troupe, Irma Tulloch-Gamble, Lynn Velasco, Halimah Anne Veon, Sulfiati Waite, Donald York.
1992
1993
Amanacer Colombia World Congress July 18-31
Renardo Barden
A little Ramadan experience
Since so many of our newer members, including some board members, are largely unfamiliar with the history of the Subud New York enterprise, “The Subud Chelsea Center,” I decided to write briefly of how we got where we are. Click here for more...
1994
1995
Ruth White getting a hug from Deanna McFadden
1996
1997
Spokane World Congress Aug 3-17
1998
Halima Polk
A little Ramadan experience
On the night of the last day of fasting during a lonely Ramadhan in 1998, I went to latihan hoping to do "minta ma'uf" with my brothers and sisters and celebrate the ending of the fast. No one else in our small group had done the fast that particular year.
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THE FIFTH DECADE: 1999-2008
1999
2000
Some of the people opened in 2000 (should your name be added to this list?): Rosa Ainslie, Tim Baralis, Donna Barba, Alysa Barker, Barbara Behar, Jeremy Bennett, Miriam Bishop, Cynthia Blackstone, Alanna Bolan, Seth Brown, Jose Maria Bueno, Elizabeth Buonomo, Jocelyn Cahall, Liz Callanan, Holly Casey, Roni Chernin, Merry Kay Cormier, David Curran, Michael Day, Evelyn Deschner, Cari Lou Dixon, Katherine Ellwood, Francisca Estrada, Arthur Eves, Jo Ann Eves, Rachman Feinberg, Derek Fowell, Jennifer Fritz, Paul Garth, Vladimir Golubtnikov, Frederic Goodwill, Alison Grey, Alina Hagen, Marlys Hann, Helen Harold, Sandra Harrington, John Hurd, Mela Jones, Jim Karlsson, Chellie Kew, Sarah Knotz, Dean Kuzara, Greg Lancaster, Maxwell Lerrigo, Michael Ligon, Cary Lowney, Malvina Lunardi, Deborah Mathews, Cassandra Mathis, Jessica McCarthy, Gillian Mickelson, Ken Mickelson, Blake Miller, Cheron O'Brian, Anna-Sophie Ogbeide, Jim Paschal, Megan Paterson-Brown, Marco Powell, Milton Reilly, Mahara Renay, Cintha Ring, Adam Driggs Rompel, Jim Ryan, Holly Seipert-Waumett, Delali Sessinou, Tom Snell, Randy Speck, Carole Swain, Amy Thomas, Brian Tinley, Tararita Vaughn, Mikaela Vinick, Sharon White, Lonnie Wilson, Bonnie Yatko.
2001
Bali World Congress July 7-18
Benedict Schurwanz
A letter from the World Congress in Bali
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
All through my latihan last night it kept running through me, 'how glorious it is to laugh in latihan!' I just remember hearing stories (from my dad and others) about how fun it was to jaunt about the country following Bapak around... Do the good days always have to be good old days?
Now at home - . Even just when I was getting quiet to try to recapture the feeling I had in latihan when I sat down to write about it... I was happy to realize that it was still there and I could recapture it... truth is it's always there, for each of us, in whatever form it is for our personal selves... and latihan helps show it to us again.
that's all for now from my corner, Love to Everyone, Benedict Schurwanz (Midwest)
Sulfiati Harris
A letter from Cilandak on Bapak's Birthday, 2001
Dear All: I am writing at 9:00 a.m. our time, on Bapak's birthday We had breakfast at the hotel, then they had the van there for us at 4:30 a.m. to go over to Wisma Subud. We could hear the imams calling the prayers as we drove.
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2002
Rachman Cantrell
Musings from Menucha
Most of you know of the existence of the PNW region’s annual long-weekend retreat at the Menucha Conference Center, a very down-home spot on the beautiful Colombia River. Completely devoted to the latihan, it always seems to be a very positive experience for attendees! Following are a few responses to it!
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Elaina Dodson, Hamid Camp, and others (can you tell us who?)
at the Skymont Reunion
RMR regional gathering. Back row: Michele Stice, Ellie Papastergiou, Hamilton Manley (National Helper),
Andres Paglayan, Halim Berrier, Reynold Bean, Jarek Meallan, Miriam Brannan.
Second row: Arianne Laidlaw, Irin Poellot, Mircea Moody, Kelly Hart, Harris Singer, Loretta Covert, Lucien Pevec,
Gabriella Pevec, Roy Rickus, Bob Demko, Joanna Dokson, Frederick Dunets.
Front row: Ivy Simpson, Rachael Amos, Lewis Olds (National Chair), Danton Spivey, Lionnell Covert, Olivia Washburn, Hamilton Brannan.
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2003
2004
2005
Innsbruck World Congress July 21-Aug 4
Marston Gregory
Interview About the Concert Performed at Innsbruck
Marston Gregory, having had a successful experience producing the Symphony Concert at the World Congress in Spokane, set out to do it again in Innsbruck! With his background at the Austin Civic Light Opera, and his other show business experience, he is well equipped to produce such a complicated event – and of course, there’s the “Subud” element of surprises. In this interview, we go behind the scenes…
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Hamid Camp
In conversation with other Subud members on the CongressNews listserver
David: Belief: “Subud is a unique gift from God, for all of humanity, at this time.” Hamid: Well David, for some this may be a “belief,” but my own experience supports this proposition. And this realization does not produce in me a feeling of being “special” or apart, only humble, grateful and cognizant of great responsibility that those who have received this Gift bear in the coming times of social breakdown.
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Sharif & Tuti,Trisha & Haridas,in Innsbruck
Americans entertain in Innsbruck: Halimah Collingwood, Lawrence Correa, Hanafi Libman
2006
Harris Boebel
Dogtrot... Fair Weather Friend
Well, it’s that time of year again. The holy month of Ramadan, one of the great challenges in my year. As always I am determined to do the fast correctly. I must experience that golden rain, The Lailatul Quadar, and prepare a blessed path to the hereafter. I have no problems with abstaining from food. It’s the inner fast– that is the problem.
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Aliman Sears,Deliana Fuddy,Melinda Wallis at the SUSA national office
Kejiwaan Day in Wooster, Ohio. Left to right: Joseph Curran, Leonora Curran,
Garrett Thompson, Eleana Thompson, the three Thompson kids in the middle,
Malvina Lunardi, Joseph Lunardi, Nancy Dodeja, Sri Dodeja
2007
Hampton Pleshe, opened 1999 or 2000, National Office bookkeeper and go-to-guy, 2008
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At the Youth Weekend in NYC
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Lusanna Stokes teaching kids at the Pacific Northwest Art Camp
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2008
Mardiah Gleeson
Adventures in Kalimantan
A quick note to let you all know we took a great 3 day 2 night boat ride up the Rungan River in the Rahai'i Pungan, on a Jungle Cruise river boat owned and operated by Lorna Dowston-Collins and Gaye Thavisin [see www.wowborneo.com, ed.]. Harlan's been on it for an afternoon cruise through some mango groves, when it was parked on a different river. It has since been moved, to the river closest to us, the Rungan.
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Elaina Dodson
A Personal Sharing of Ibu Rahayu's 80th Birthday Events-March 13, 2008
It’s difficult to put into words how full the day was yesterday, inwardly and outwardly, with a trip to Bapak’s grave, a visit to two local Subud-supported projects, and Ibu Rahayu’s 80th birthday party at night. But here goes, a brief diary of the day, just to give a taste:
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Rofé's membership card: Subud Japan
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Osanna Vaughn
The Passing of a Pioneer
Feb 13, 2008: I have just been informed that Husein Rofé, so instrumental to Subud spreading beyond Indonesia, passed away two weeks ago. The annoucement was delayed out of respect for and upon request of those he leaves behind. Sharif Horthy will be writing a rememberance of Husein in the coming days. We pray for the peace of his soul, that it may be enfolded with love and rise in grace to the realm of the Almighty.
Click here for Tribute to Husein Rofé by Michael Rogge, excerpted from Subud World News
 The vision to renovate Bapak's "Big House" in Cilandak (by Yayasan Muhammad Subuh) Has come true! Click here to see it...
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