Remembering Hans Cavins

Our Subud brother, Hans Cavins, passed away on February 16, 2022. Hans suffered with heart disease for a number of years before passing. He leaves behind his loving wife, Linda, two sisters (Rosalyn Neel and Serena DuBois), 3 children and 3 step children, 17 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren.

Hans and Linda were active members of Subud CA at Butte County, and acted as caretakers of the Subud House, cleaning and doing electrical and plumbing maintenance of the hall until the house was sold. Since then they have been California Regional members, living in Los Molinos, CA.

Hans was born in Berkeley, July 30, 1948, and grew up in Roseville, before joining the Air Force during the Vietnam War years. After his honorable discharge he worked as a contractor with Pac Bell, doing cable splicing.

Hans was a man of many talents; he loved building, and was a craftsman who took great pride in his work. He was also a musician who played the guitar and the harp. He will be especially remembered for his kind and loving ways, his generosity and for his dry sense of humor. We miss him.

May God speed him on his way in the next life.

Connecting with Community at Subud Butte County

by Renata Reid

Malama MacNeil provided these details on how connections have been built between the Subud center and the local community.

Getting to Know the Community

The Chico Subud group in Butte County rents their hall to Pastor Vince for Sunday morning church services. Pastor Vince also leads the “Love Chapmantown Coalition” which supports community building in an unincorporated area of the city.

Subud Chico made their hall available to the community group for family activities, services to the homeless, African dance classes, and a social group for young adults with developmental delays.This community presence in the hall led them to Helping Hands, an organization run by local Mormons, who came and painted the Subud Hall. Since the hall was painted, there has been no tagging, which was a regular problem before.

Hosting the Little Free Library

When Pastor Vince was approached by the The Little Free Library because of his work in Chapmantown, the Subud group embraced the idea. The library has a steward who monitors and replenishes the books, and also takes books into nursing homes. No money is allocated from the library system so the structure itself and all of the books are donated by the community. Most of the books are in English with some books in Spanish.

A newspaper article was inspired by Library’s outreach effort to encourage literacy by putting books in public spaces. The Subud hall is the second Little Free Library in the area, and more are in progress.

The library is now perceived as part of the neighborhood. It has drawn attention to the Subud Hall and the activities that happen there. It’s an excellent community builder and serves many purposes. Malama is eager to spread the concept to other Subud groups in California. She envisions it could be set up at almost any of our halls, anywhere there’s foot traffic.

Interested? For more information go to: www.littlefreelibrary.com .

Rochanah Weissinger passed January 15, 2014

Longtime Subud member Rochanah Weissinger passed away unexpectedly on January 15, 2014. She will be greatly missed by her family and the many friends she has made over the years.

Rochanah was a member in Marin, LA and most recently Chico. She served as a Helper, California Chairman and Zone 7 Representative for WSA. She was a strong advocate for others and she was a steadfast friend of the Cuban members. She will be deeply missed by all.