%eadnotat; ]> 5024mbye An Inventory of the Mary Bye Papers, 1966-[ongoing] Finding Aid Prepared by FHL staff Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. 1991 Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, December 2000. ENG Mary Bye Papers, 1966-[on-going] FHL staff Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. 1991 Descriptive Summary Papers, 1966-[on-going] RG 5/024 Mary Bye (b. 1913) 3 boxes; 1.5 linear ft. Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.

Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081-1399 U.S.A.

For current information on the location of materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. Mary (Du Bois) Bye, Quaker peace and social activist and member of Doylestown Monthly Meeting of Friends in Pennsylvania, was born in 1913. This collection consists of the papers relating to Mary Bye's political activity. It includes correspondence, notes, clippings, and other files concerning peace and justice issues.

Repository:

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081-1399

Phone: (610) 328-8496 FAX: (610) 690-5728

BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTE

Mary Du Bois was born on April 25, 1913. She graduated from Swarthmore College in 1936 and married Ranulph de Bayeux. They had five children, Dennis Latham (b. May 31, 1942), Barbara Downman (b. April 7, 1944), Richard Edwin (b. March 12, 1951; d. May 10, 1951), Stephen Gerard (b. June 18, 1952), and Catherine Maitland (b. 1955).

She is an active member of Doylestown Monthly Meeting and Bucks Quarterly Meeting, serving on several committees, including the Quarterly Meeting's Peace and Service Committee. In addition to her political involvement through the Meeting, she individually was active in the peace movement and other social causes. She protested several issues, leading to her arrest at the Pentagon in 1969 and at Harrisburg in 1972. She also protested by not paying her taxes.

One of the most important things she did as a political activist was to open her home as a forum where people such as Father Daniel Berrigan could speak to the community and peace walkers could spend the night.

SCOPE AND CONTENT OF THE RECORDS

This collection consists of the papers relating to Mary Bye's political activity. It includes correspondence, notes, clippings, and other files concerning peace and justice issues. Includes material on Daniel Berrigan, Robert Whittington Eaton, the Plowshares Eight, Vietnamese conflict, Continental Walk for Disarmament, corporate divestiture, Central American refugees, and many other issues. Correspondents include Noam Chomsky, Alexander Calder, Theodore Friend, Kai Yutah Clouds, Fr. Paul Kabat, and others.

Arrangement

The collection is divided into two series:

Correspondence Miscellaneous ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Accession information

Donor: Mary Bye, 1991, 1994

Provenance

This collection was given to the Swarthmore College Peace Collection by Mary Bye. It was transferred to Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College in 1991.

Access

Collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

Copyright has not been assigned to Friends Historical Library All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in to the Director. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Friends Historical Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.

Preferred Citation

[Indicate the cited item or series here], Mary Bye Papers, RG5/024, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Processing information

This collection was given to the Swarthmore College Peace Collection by Mary Bye. It was transferred to Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College in 1991. Periodicals were retained by the Peace Collection. Mary Bye's original subject designations have been retained, and they have been put into alphabetical order. Form letters and solicitations from various organizations were returned to the donor or discarded.

Note: This is an open collection, with additional unprocessed accessions arriving at indeterminate intervals.

Related Material

The Peace Collection kept issues of the following:

(located in SCPC Periodicals) Alert, Basta!, Central America Report, FCNL Washington Newsletter, Friends of Peace Pilgrim, GI Press Service, The Nonviolent, Pax et Libertas, Peace and Freedom, WIN Magazine and The Veteran SELECTED SEARCH TERMS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Friends Historical Library (TRIPOD). Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings:

Social justice Quaker women Quakers -- Pennsylvania Quakers - Controversy Quakers - Peace Quaker social reformers Disarmament Disinvestment -- South Africa Refugees -- Central America Vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice Peace -- Societies, etc. Plowshares Eight (Group) Chomsky, Noam Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976 Friend, Theodore Clouds, Kai Yutah, 1948-1980 Kabat, Paul Eaton, Robert Whittington Berrigan, Daniel Bye, Mary, b. 1913 DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

Note to Researchers: To request materials, please note both the location and box numbers shown below:

Ser. 1. Correspondence, 1968-1994

Folders arranged alphabetically according to Mary Bye's subject designations. Although this series is largely comprised of Correspondence, the folders also contain many notes in Mary Bye's hand, rough drafts of letters and proclamations, newspaper clippings by or about Mary Bye, bills, receipts, photographs and slides. In some folders general background information is included to allow for a fuller understanding of Mary Bye's involvement with the issue.

AIDS 1989 1 Background material and rough draft of article Alaska Wildlife preservation 1993 1 Correspondence, including talk of the Federal Airborne Hunting Act Amnesty 1976-1977 1 Correspondence and letters to the editor as a member of the Peace and Service Committee of Bucks Quarterly Meeting Animal rights n.d.. 1 Correspondence Daniel Berrigan's Public Appearance at the Byes' Home1972 1

Correspondence; includes letters to the editor and newspaper clippings about Father Daniel Berrigan's speech to 700 people about war policies. A Jesuit priest and peace advocate, he had visited North Vietnam and had gone to jail when convicted with eight other activists of destroying Selective Service records in Catonsville, MD Billboard 1969-1970 1 Mary Bye came up with the idea of using billboards as part of Doylestown Monthly Meeting's anti-“Safeguard” the anti-ballistic missile system campaign Biodiversity Legal Foundation1994 1 Correspondence, advertisement clipping Bosnia-Serbia war, U.S. involvement 1993 1 Correspondence California Gnatcatcher (endangered bird) 1993 1 Correspondence Central America 1985-1989 1

Correspondence exclusively with Senator John Heinz about Nicaragua and El Salvador; also about the federal budget and acid rain legislation. Chinese painting 1994 1 Correspondence Christic Institute 1993 1 Correspondence CIA 1975-1977 1 Correspondence and notes, including Mary Bye's requests for access to files the FBI, CIA, and Dept. of the Navy may be maintaining on her. Clinton, as new president 1993 1 Correspondence Community 1980-1981 1 Correspondence, mainly notes considering the possibility of alternative living situations Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice1976 1

Correspondence, etc. Also includes clippings, photographs, slides and background information on the Continental Walk, which Mary Bye organized for the Bucks Co. area Cruise and Pershing [missiles]1983 1 Letters to the editor and related notes Cuba1994 1 Correspondence and news clippings Desert Protection Act 1993 1 Correspondence Disarmament 1974-1978 1 Correspondence. Includes typescript of a speech by the Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Downed Animal Protection Act 1993 1 Correspondence Doylestown Meeting Statement Regarding Conscription 1968-1969 1 Correspondence and several drafts of the statement Draft and Robert Eaton '65 1968-1969 1 Correspondence about the position of Friends regarding the draft and clippings about Robert Eaton '65, who was sentenced to three years imprisonment for refusing to report for nonmilitary duty as a conscientious objector Eco-Justicen.d. 1 Notes El Salvador 1980-1985 1

Correspondence, some on behalf of Southampton MM, and notes concerning U.S. policy. Related to folder on Sanctuary for Refugees Environmental issues, including the spotted owl, logging industry, over fishing 1993-4 1 Includes correspondence and news clipping. Some corresp. with Vice President Gore and President Clinton and news clippings, 1994 Environmental Protection Agency1994 1 Correspondnece Fellowship of Reconciliation n.d. 1 Draft of a letter to Mr. Wilson Frankenthaler, Helen, her artwork 1993 1 Correspondence French Bomb Tests over Mururoa 1973-1974 1

Some correspondence on behalf of Friends Peace Committee, notes and drafts of an “Elegy to Polynesia after the French atmospheric nuclear test on July 21” Friends Committee on National Legislation1988 1 Drafts of two letters to Ed Snyder Gay Concerns 1981 1 Includes names and addresses of attenders at the F.L.G.C. Mid-Winter Gathering, which Mary Bye attended Gentry, Alwyn Howard, Ph.D. and Theodore A. Parker III, their death1993 1 Correspondence, notes and memorial invitation Greensboro 51983-1984 1

Correspondence, particularly to the judge involved in the case. Includes drafts of a “Statement of Interest” on behalf of Southampton MM, background information on the killing of five labor organizers in 1979 and the acquittal of those accused of the deed, and notes Guatemala and Kai Yutah Clouds: 1977-1981 1 Correspondence. Kai Yutah Clouds was an American agriculturist who had been working for over a year in the village of San Jose Poaquil, Chimaltenango, Guatemala, when he was assassinated. Includes photographs, maps of the area, notes, and background information on Kai Haitians1974-1980, 1993 2 Correspondence Hiroshima Day 1974-1975 2 Correspondence and notes Holy Week in Harrisburg: 1972 2 Correspondence. Includes criminal complaint form, clippings and background information. Mary Bye was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. She chose to spend three days in jail rather than pay the $21 fine House Bill 2212 1970 2 Also known as the Berson Bill and the Vietnam War Bill. Includes correspondence, notes, signed petitions, copy of the Bill, drafts of a “Proclamation” Human Rights 1977-1978, 1994 2 Correspondence and notes Human Services 1981 2 Correspondence. Includes a check made out the Bucks Co. Commissioners and one to the City of Philadelphia, never cashed, drafts of a “Statement to the Commissioners” from residents of Bucks Co., and notes. Iraq, non-military sanctions 1992 2 Correspondence, pamphlets Israeli-Palestinian conflict 1993 2 Correspondence Justice/Peace1978-1983 2 Miscellaneous correspondence. Includes material relating to the showing of the film “War Without Winners,” initiated by the Peace and Service Committee of Bucks QM. Mary Bye was convener of that committee Father Paul Kabat 1985-1986 2 Correspondence and newsletters from Father Paul Kabat, a Catholic peace activist convicted for damaging missile silos in Missouri Free Exercise of Religion1993 2 Correspondence with Sen. Wofford and Sen. Specter Korea 1973-1984 2 Correspondence and notes, some on behalf of the Friends Peace Committee Lawyers Military Defense Committee 1972-1974 2 Correspondence and miscellaneous financial papers relating to the LMDC's sale of donated artworks in order to raise necessary funds. Folder contains photos of a work by Alexander Calder and several handwritten letters from him to Mary Bye. Libya 1986 2 Correspondence and notes Macroanalysis n.d. 2 Explanatory pamphlet and notes Mexico, Chiapas 1994 2 Correspondence Military spending 1993 2 Correspondence Meat industry and health issues 1993 2 Correspondence Military Justice 1974-1979 2 Correspondence and Friends Military Counseling Service Minutes Movement for a New Society 1971-1984 2 Miscellaneous Native Americans 1992-3 2 Correspondence Nicaragua 1988 2 One form letter from Arlen Specter Northern Ireland 1976-1977 2 Materials concerning the Journey of Reconciliation, organized by the National Council of the Churches of Christ. Mary Bye participated in the Journey Non-violence, U.S. 1993 2 Correspondence 2 versions Parker, Theodore III, his death 2 See Gentry, Alwyn (Mary Bye Papers) Peace Award 1989 2 News clipping Pentagon 1980 2 Mostly notes Philadelphia Yearly Meeting funds 1993 2 Correspondence received Plowshares 8 1981 2 Correspondence, background information, notes and clippings about the Plowshares 8 - the name given to the 8 persons who entered the GE plant in King of Prussia and destroyed nuclear warhead cones - and about the celebration Mary Bye coordinated in their honor. Population issues 1993-4 2 Correspondence Prisoner Visitation and Support 1971-1980 2 Correspondence, some with prisoners, PVS Committee information, notes and a photograph SALT n.d. 3 Draft of a letter Sanctuary for Refugees 1982-1984 3 Correspondence and notes, including Southampton MM's Declaration of Sanctuary SANE n.d. 3 Miscellaneous notes SEIS team 1993 and n.d. 3 Correspondence Selective Service spending n.d. 3 Correspondence Sheehan, Dan 1993 3 Correspondence Sierra Club 1985 3 Miscellaneous “Songs of Protest,” 1993 3 Correspondence South Africa 1978-1983 3 Correspondence, notes and clippings Swarthier College Divestment from South Africa 1978-1984 3 Correspondence, including some with Noam Chomsky, an interview with College President Theodore Friend, and related materials Talks to Westtown School 1981, n.d. 3 Typescript of “Inner Direction and Outer Action,” notes about “Living the Peace Testimony” Thailand n.d. 3 Miscellaneous USSR 1983 3 One form letter from Arlen Specter Vietnam Protests 1966-1969, 1992 3 Correspondence, notes, clippings, armband, photograph, and official papers relating to the arrest of Mary Bye on June 18, 1969 Violence 1993 3 Correspondence Walk for Peace and Kent Lalrabee 1982 3 Kent Larrabee's newsletter while on his walk from the U.S. to Moscow Walking Gently on the Earth n.d. 3 Original and revised writing, correspondence 1993 War Resisters League 1974-1981 3 Correspondence and minutes from WRL meeting War Tax Resistance 1972-1982, 1994 3 Correspondence, particularly with the IRS, Mary Bye's tax returns, War Tax Concerns Support Committee minutes and notes; correspondence, 1994 Whale population preservation 1993-4 3 Correspondence World Bank 1985 3 Correspondence and notes World Peace Walk by C.B. Hall 1983-1984 3 Correspondence, including some with C.B. Hall notes, clippings, and background information on Hall, who led a walk from Seattle to Moscow that stopped at Mary Bye's home, and a photograph Yugoslavia conflict 1993 3 Correspondence Ser. 2. Miscellaneous, 1978, n.d. Cancelled personal checks 1978

The checks show the variety of organizations Mary Bye supported.

Biography of Mary Bye, “Quaker Activist” by Donna Dvorak-Knieriem 3

Published in the Bucks County Town and Country Living.