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Lived Values – The Names of Pennswood’s Buildings

Pennswood Village’s building names honor certain prominent Quakers who manifested important values by letting their lives speak. The PDF below tells their stories. They inspire now as they did in their own times. Topics: not assigned Alice Paul | Audland | Barclay | Benson | Caton | Daisy Newman | Dyer | Ellwood | Fell | Gervase Benson | Gurney | Holme | Ingram | J. Harold Passmore | John Audland | John Kinsey | John Woolman | Jordan | Joseph John Gurney | Kinsey | Loe | Lucretia Mott | Margaret Fell | Mary Dyer | Mildred Scott Olmsted | Mott | Newman | Olmsted | Paul | Penn | Pennswood | Pennswood Village | Quaker | Quakers | Richard Jordan | Robert Barclay | stories | Thomas […]

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Bocce, Singing, Partying – Jack Bertolino

Interview with Ruth Bertolino and Jack Williams 10-31-22 Remembering Jack Ruth Bertolino and Jack Williams Interviewer: Marguerite Chandler OK, we’re recording. This is October 31, 2022. And you are? 00:08 Ruth: I am Ruth Bertolino. My husband, Jack, and I arrived in Pennswood on September 9, 2003, when Mott was a brand new building. 00:23 MC

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Then and Now

It’s hard to imagine that before 1980 this beautiful campus was a humble cornfield and pasture. The contrasts between then and now are numerous. This section tells about Pennswood’s heritage. Topics: not assigned Buildings | community | community | Customs & Culture | Customs & Culture | Demographics | Demographics | Environmental Stewardship | Environmental Stewardship | events | Events | Intergenerational Activities | Intergenerational Activities | Land | Land | performing arts | Performing Arts | PV Services | PV Services | Residents Past and Present | Residents Past and Present

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Harold Passmore

“A Camelot-like experience“ Harold Passmore died in 1983 – description below based on a quote from Nancy Spears 9/9/23. We often described it, not just me, but many of us, at least for the first 25 years sure, that it was a Camelot-like experience. It was just extraordinary. We worked really hard, and we

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