Our Memorial Trust
Celebrating the 25th year of our retreat center, Seasons, and sunsetting the John E. Fetzer Memorial Trust offers us the occasion to reflect on our roots and to honor the many people who have helped guide our organization and community. This page is dedicated to the many trustees who have urged us to work from a place of inquiry and to access Spirit as we strive to meet our organizations guiding purpose.... To these individuals, we offer the deepest thanks from our community, past, present, and future.
Angie Arrien
Angie Arrien (1940-2014), cultural anthropologist, educator, author, lecturer and consultant, whose small stature belied her mighty spirit and intellect. We thank you for your service as a Fetzer Institute trustee and for sharing the gift of the fourfold way with our community. From her TED Talk: The four great mysteries that every culture ritualizes: birth, initiatory processes, committed love, death. Death and Birth hold the ends of the luminous pause that is called our life’s journey which contains a call, repeated instances of the archetypal cycle: the search, the struggle, the breakthrough, the return.
Tom Beaver
Tom Beaver, dedicated personal assistant to Mr. Fetzer during his later years, member of the John E. Fetzer Memorial Trust, and keeper of XXX. We are grateful for the constancy of your person, your humility, and the thread you keep in connection with our founder.
Janis Claflin
Janis Clafin, wise counselor and our first-ever Fetzer Institute board chair, we appreciate your care, patience, and firm hand in guiding our organization and shaping so much of the relationship-centered aspects of our work, from relationship-centered care to teacher formation.
Bruce Fetzer
Bruce Fetzer, great nephew of John Fetzer, thank you for growing with us and demonstrating the power of transformation in all that you have brought to our science program, tending the notion of the journey and wonder of your great uncle, and reminding us of the mysteries of life and possibility. We appreciate your service as both a Fetzer Institute trustee (and treasurer) and a member of the John E. Fetzer Memorial Trust.
Wink Franklin
Wink Franklin (1941-2004—double check this), former president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and a pioneer in the study of human consciousness and mind-body health. The joy and creative spirit you brought our organization lives on…
