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From Kirkland House: Robert L. Fischelis '50, of Germantown...
Arthur J. Boncot '49 of Leverett House and Germantown, Pa., and Peter B. Roll '48 of Lowell House and Scarborough, N. Y., will join 72-year old McMillan and his crew of 14 in the northern track to chart the seaward move of four massive glaciers which end in Baffin...
Logan was an 18th Century gentleman farmer, an author of pamphlets on crops and soil, and a Quaker pacifist. He lived on a 500-acre estate near Germantown, Pa., dabbled in medicine, and habitually wore homespun clothes to encourage domestic manufacture. In 1798, Logan saw the U.S., attacked and insulted, preparing for war. French warships had seized U.S. vessels. The French foreign minister, Talleyrand, had cynically tried to exact what amounted to a tribute from the infant country. Nevertheless, Quaker Logan viewed U.S. intentions with consternation, and as a self-appointed peacemaker sailed for France...
Wolves' World. In 1683 a group of Dutch-descended Mennonites came to Quaker William Penn's new colony in America and settled at Germantown. For a time, they found tolerance and peace. By 1776 the Pennsylvania Mennonites numbered nearly 7,500; today there are approximately 200,000 on the North American continent. They too, "plain people" as they call themselves, have not escaped the disease of sectarianism and schism. U.S. Mennonites are currently divided into 16 groups, including the black-clothed, buttonless, bearded Amish of southeastern Pennsylvania. Some of them still practice such ancient customs as the "holy...
Died. Edward G. Budd, 75, founder-president of the $80,000,000 Budd Co., which made the first marketable all-steel automobile body in 1912, the first streamlined stainless steel train (Zephyr) in 1934; of a heart attack; in Germantown...