Church, the Academy, the community, and aviation organizations – with a
mix of grace and wit, a calm sense of what is right and what needed to be done,
and always assurance mixed with genuine humility.
He served for years on the Academy Corporation and Board of Trustees,
chairing the Salary and Finance Committees. On the General Church Board
he was chair of the Budget Committee. For the Bryn Athyn Church Board he
chaired the School Building Fund. And he was a leader for the Bryn Athyn Boy
Scouts Troop. He was always just that – a quiet leader.
For those who had the pleasure and privilege of serving with him – as I
did – he is remembered fondly for his attention to detail, for always thinking
from New Church principles, and for his ready smile.
He and his wife Lynn (Pitcairn) were valued together as good parents,
good citizens, good friends. For all his many involvements, his commitment
and caring in any organization he served, his role as a loving and devoted
husband and father, he earned the ultimate epitaph a man can aspire to: This
was a good man.
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