Friends gathering before the Swarthmore Lecture. Photo: Elinor Smallman.
Yearly Meeting Gathering 2017: Main sessions
Harry Albright reports on the first days of Yearly Meeting
The main business sessions of Yearly Meeting 2017 began on Sunday morning with the appointment of the clerk, Deborah Rowlands, and the assistant clerks, Clare Scott Booth and Siobhan Haire, who were to direct affairs in the main auditorium with a combination of efficiency, quiet authority and humour.