To Davison, 1969

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John Davison and his wife Elizabeth Geary Davison received an invitation to the Danforth Associateship from the Danforth Society, and correspondence regarding these grants from Robert Rankin, Director of the Associate Program, are found in this year. John Davison was also confirmed as the chairman of the Music Department of Haverford College, with a letter of thanks from John Coleman, President of the College. In response to JD's essay "The Effect of ‘Mind-Expanding’ Drugs on Education," John Davison was invited to give a lecture at the Friends General Conference titled "Fulfillment and the Expansion of Consciousness: is there a role for drugs?" In addition, Michael Bradley, Guy Davenport, Giorgio Gaggia, John Greppin, Gaynelle Irving, Raffaello 'Ray' Orlando, and Alfred Swan continue to correspond regularly.

Other Correspondents: Martha Bixler; Rev. David B. Watermulder, Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church; Vera B. Lawrence, Administrator, Contemporary Music Project; Katharine 'Kay' Jacobs, Country Dance Society; Elloyd Hanson, Program Committee Chairman, Country Dance and Song Society of America; Mary Cross; Sally Davison; Elizabeth Geary Davison; R. John Davison; Stowe Davison; Hollett 'Holly' Davison; Richard 'Rick' Davison; Leon Dewar; Gertrude Ely; David Fetter; Evelyn Geary; Mary B., Germantown Friends School; Sally Greppin; Wilma Harris; Lois H.; Hank Henderson; Archibald R. Montgomery, III, Headmaster, The Hill School; George Dickey, Associate Director, The Juilliard School; Christopher and Ellen 'Ellie' Kauffman; Sharon Kelley; Stefan Kozinski; Jack Lester; Mrs. Wolden Lindsey; Esther Lockwood; Mary L. Tower, Ludington Public Library, Bryn Mawr, PA; Richard McConaghy; Dick McCry; Lieland Meier; Miles Kumnick; Marie E. Malsbury, Division of Education, Philadelphia Museum of Art; George Ridemour; Vincent Roark; Kenneth Roberts; Louis 'Lou' Rosenblatt; Carl Shields; Duncan Smith; Henry Charles Smith; Robert Suderburg; Alfred Swan; Craig Thompson; Donald Hunsberger, Conductor, Eastman Wind Ensemble, University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music; Vernon Haskell; Jean S. Donati, Music Department Secretary, Williams College; Michael Young

Highlights include:

Irving, Gaynelle. October. Poem, titled "Shadow of the Sun, or, Sun and Shadow"