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...wooded campus of the George School, in Pennsylvania's rolling Bucks County, students call their principal "the Pope" and the cheerful cottage where he lives "the Vatican." Actually, the George School, founded in 1893, is the largest and one of the best Quaker prep schools in the U.S. It is also one of the nation's few coeducational boarding schools. Gentle, willowy George A. Walton has been the Pope longer than most of his students' parents can remember. Last week he announced that he was retiring. "Forty years," said he, "is long enough...
...George School's new principal, Richard McFeely, is a Quaker who once coached football at George and is still known to alumni as "Mister Dick." A football player at Swarthmore, he was later struck down by infantile paralysis. At Warm Springs, Ga. he met the nurse he later married and became a good friend of Franklin Roosevelt. He is determined that George School under him shall be as it was under Walton...
Prominent University Faculty members, as well as sizeable group of undergraduates, will be among 750 delegates converging today in Philadelphia for the national convention of Americans for Democratic Action that opens this morning at the Quaker City's Bellevue-Stratford Hotel...
Aroused alumni are on especially potent force right now at the Quaker co-educational school, as the administration is in the midst of a campaign to raise $5,000,000 to finance new dormitories, higher salaries, and the like. Only a little over $1,000,000 of this has been raised during the past year...
Editorial comment on Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey's "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" has proved too strong a potion for Quaker tastes. As a result the 68-year-old Phoenix, Swarthmore College newspaper, has been forced to suspend publication...