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Herrymon Maurer is a concerned man, and for Quakers the word concern has a special meaning. Quakers commonly share their concerns with the Meeting to the end that something be done. Herrymon Maurer, 39, a onetime teacher in West China and onetime FORTUNE editor, is a Quaker from Sewickley, Pa., and he voices a passionate concern in his sixth book, What Can I Know? (Harper...
There are plenty of rich Episcopalians in Bishop Pardue's Pittsburgh diocese, but he doesn't budget much of his time and driving energy for such estate-studded parishes as Sewickley and Ligonier Valley. The 43 industrial missions and a dozen churches in working-class districts get most of his concern, and the result is a growing kind of ministry that in his opinion has been all too rare in the Episcopal Church. "We in the church," he says, "have concentrated on the Gay Nineties type of missionary work. We worried about the people in the middle...
...porch on the Old Fort Inn overlooks the ocean, but the view was partly blocked by the fine old trees on the summer estates belonging to George A. Elliott Jr. of Wilmington, Del. and Mrs. Marion Clapp Collin of Sewickley, Pa. A year ago, a hotel employee climbed the stone wall bordering the estates, cut down five tall spruces on Elliott's property, a fine twin white birch and three maples on Mrs. Collin's property. For good measure, he lopped the branches off quite a few pines and fir trees to clear the view...
Farr, a righteous, graying, onetime German professor, has had several opportunities to see the man he thinks so little of. The Gundelfinger of today--distinguished-looking and mild-mannered--occasionally returns to New Haven from his "New Fraternity" publishing company in Sewickley, and visits the library for new material...
They rode up & down the cliff in ancient funiculars (the "Inclines"), jammed the buses and trolley cars which filled the cobblestone, alley-like streets. The luckier and better-paid lived in nearby suburbs. Most of the wealthy had fled to the distant suburbs of Sewickley Heights, Fox Chapel, or to Rolling Rock, 50 miles to the east in the mountains near the Pennsylvania Turnpike...