Eleanor Zelliot, award-winning author, researcher, social justice activist, educator, Professor Emerita of Carleton College, devoted Quaker, and beloved member of Cannon Valley Friends Meeting, died on Sunday, June 5, 2016, at the age of 89.  A Memorial Meeting for Worship in the manner of Friends was held to honor and share memories of Eleanor on Saturday, June 18th, at the Cannon Valley Friends Meeting House (512 Washington St., Northfield).  The Memorial Service was followed with refreshments and light food.

Carleton College also held a memorial service for Eleanor, who served as Laird Bell Professor of History emerita, on Friday, June 17th, in the Carleton Chapel.

Contributions in Eleanor’s honor may go to Cannon Valley Friends Meeting (PO Box 805, Northfield, MN 55057) or Friends for a Nonviolent World fnvw.org.

A copy of Eleanor's CVFM obituary is available under "Files" below.  You can also see her Carleton College obituary at: https://apps.carleton.edu/farewells/?story_id=1425996 and her obituary in the Minneapolis Star Tribune at: http://www.startribune.com/obituaries/detail/140245/?fullname=eleanor-zelliot

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The following poem, "Tukaram Says Farewell to His Collegues," was read at the conclusion of the Memorial Meeting for Worship held for Eleanor Zelliot, a founding member of Cannon Valley Friends Meeting, at the CVFM Meetinghouse on Sat., June 18. 2016:

See me off and go home now, All of you.

May you attain the good by doing your duty righteously.  My blessings go with you.

You raised me and handed me over to the One.  Now everything will work out for me.

I have followed what I cherished:  It is tme to go with the Lord of my breath.

Do not let your affection linger any longer:  Still your troubled minds.

Those who ever joined hands with me have achieved man’s cherished integrity.

Says Tuka, this is our last meeting:  All I leave behind is stories about me.

[Note: This poem was translated by Dilip Chitre in "Says Tuka-1. The First volume of the Selected Poetry of Tukaram, translated from the Marathi by Dilip Chitre."  (Pune: Sontheimer Cultural AssociaTon, 2003), p. 257]