Jan Bartholomew

Jan grew up attending the Sylmar Friends (Quaker) Meeting with her grandparents once or twice a month. In college at UCLA, she participated in the founding of the Westwood Friends Meeting. She received my master’s degree in Biometry from USC and worked as a computer programmer analyst for most of her adult life. At retirement in 2014, she started to attend, and later joined, the Santa Monica Friends Meeting. She particularly enjoyed the silent gathered meeting for worship, the diversity of religious beliefs in God, Jesus, and spirituality housed under one roof, the distinctly Quaker form of decisions making which is grounded in spirituality and listens to and considers the views of all people present at the meeting, and the opportunity for social activism.