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Adelbert Mason (b. 1922) graduated from Bowdoin College and Middlebury College. He taught at Oakwood Friends School (Poughkeepsie, New York) and the George School (Newtown, Pennsylvania), was Headmaster of Abington Friends School (Jenkintown, Pennsylvania), and was Executive Director of the Friends Council on Education (1977-1988). Quaker Teaching;Secular Pursuit and Sacred Mission, by Adelbert Mason (1981) The Sacred Mission of Quaker Educationedited by David Gansz(14 pages of text)
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Thomas Shipley Brown (b. 1912) graduated from Westtown School, Haverford College, and Harvard University. He taught at Earlham College and Westtown School, was Headmaster of Friends Boarding School (Barnesville, Ohio), and was Executive Director of the Friends Council on Education in Philadelphia (1967-1977). A Theology of Quaker Education, by Thomas Shipley Brown (1968) The Sacred Mission of Quaker Educationedited by David Gansz(14 pages of text)
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D. Elton Trueblood (1900-1994) graduated from William Penn College, Harvard University , and Johns Hopkins University. He taught at Guilford College, Haverford College, Stanford University, and Earlham College (1946-1966), and was instrumental in founding the Earlham School of Religion.
A Quaker Philosophy of Education, by D. Elton Trueblood (1946) The Sacred Mission of Quaker Educationedited by David Gansz(14 pages of text)
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Howard Haines Brinton (1884-1973), of Chester County, Pennsylvania, graduated from Haverford College, Harvard University, and the University of California. He taught at Friends Select School (Philadelphia), Olney Boarding School (Barnesville, Ohio), Guilford College, Earlham College, and Mills College, and worked for the American Friends Service Committee in Europe. He was Director of Pendle Hill, the Quaker center for study and contemplation in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, from 1936 until his retirement in 1952. A prolific author, in addition to numerous Pendle Hill pamphlets on Quaker topics, his major works include The Mystic Will, Based on a Study of the Philosophy of Jacob Boehme, (Macmillan, 1930), Creative Worship (Allen & Unwin 1931), Divine-Human Society (Pendle Hill, 1938), Children of Light (Macmillan, 1938), Guide to Quaker Practice (Pendle Hill, 1943), Quaker Education in Theory and Practice (Pendle Hill, 1949), Friends for 300 Years (Harper, 1952), Creative Worship and Other Essays (Pendle Hill, 1963), Quaker Journals: Varieties of Religious Experience Among Friends (Pendle Hill, 1972), and The Religious Philosophy of Quakerism; The Beliefs of Fox, Barclay, and Penn as Based on the Gospel of John (Pendle Hill, 1973). The Function of a Quaker College
by Howard H. Brinton(13 pages of text)
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David Gansz was raised in Philadelphia, where he attended the William Penn Charter School and graduated from Westtown Friends Boarding School, and Greensboro, North Carolina, where his father was a Professor of Music at Guilford College. Further educated at Oxford and Canterbury Universities, Bard College and the University of Michigan, he holds degrees in Theology, Art History, Poetry, and Library & Information Science. Presently Director of the Library at Wilmington College in Ohio, he is the former Director of the Library at Naropa University, a Buddhist institution. Spanning forty years of direct participation in Friends education, he has attended silent Quaker meetings while living in Philadelphia, Ann Arbor, Boulder, Yellow Springs, the Hudson River Valley of New York, the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, and elsewhere. He is the editor of Educating for Peace and Social Justice (2002), author of Millennial Scriptions (2000), publisher and editor of Ashen Meal (1995-1999) Quaker Education: What Is It?
by David Gansz(15 pages of text)
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