North Shore Cadre – ICA Social Research Center

The North Shore Cadre
Len Dresslar, Betty Pesek, George McBurney, LaVerne Phillips, Betty Hill, Don Moffett, Mary Warren Moffett, Jim Phillips, Rodney Wilson, Nicki Dresslar, Priscilla Wilson, Sheldon Hill, Georgiana McBurney (photographer)

CHICAGO BEGINNINGS

The Guardians were people lending their wisdom, time and financial support to the Spirit Movement. Initially a group from the North Shore area of Chicago supported Joe in ways too numerous to mention. They helped keep him in touch with how the structures of society operated and gave him insights into how effectively to operate as as “structural revolutionary”. In 2014 Priscilla Wilson recalls the journey of women from the North Chicago suburbs, who after the impact of the RS-I course, began working with the Ecumenical Institute one day a week in 1968. Later involving their husbands, the women (and husbands) became the foundation of the Guardians. The Guardian network was formalized in 1972 with a group of 33 and grew to 360 in 1978.

North Shore Cadre History; North Shore Cadre Year One; Year Two and Year Three. Charts reflect the cadre mission (symbolic, intellectual, discipline).

The Seven Global Odysseys

The North Shore Cadre developed the Global Odyssey, a “round the world” trip to explore needs in other countries.

GLOBAL ODYSSEY I, July 1970