Word: drexel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PHILADELPHIA FATHER (256 pp.)-Cordelia Drexel Biddle, as told to Kyle Crichfon-Doubleday...
Died. Mother Mary Katharine Drexel, 96, Philadelphia heiress turned nun, widely honored as the founder (in 1891) and first superior general of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People; in Cornwells Heights, Pa. The daughter of Multimillionaire Banker Francis Anthony Drexel, Mother Katharine renounced personal wealth and social position in her 20s, dedicated her life and the income from her $7,500,000 inheritance to charitable and educational work among American Indians and Negroes...
...Drexel Hill...
...Drexel Hill...
Teacher Pund did not appear to be the sort who would go in for kissing games. A graduate of the Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia, he was a mild-mannered man of 40, who claimed to have once been ordained a minister. Nevertheless, Fund obviously had his theories. "A lot of boys and girls," says he, "have inhibitions. I believed that post office would draw them...