Box 8

Scope and Contents This folder contains documents detailing Grace Bacon Lowry's time a member of the orientation staff on special sailings of the S.S. Marine Tiger and S.S. Marine Jumper taking students to and from Europe to help exchange students understand each others cultures. There is information for the students; on the orientation program; the newsletters of the Jumper and Tiger; newspaper clipping re the Juniper (in Norwegian); reports on Europe made by discussion groups aboard the Tiger; information...

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This folder contains letters discussing the meetings of the World Council of Churches in Lucknow, India. Lowry's statement on the meeting (including such participants as Prime Minister Nehru) and the W.C.C.'s Secretary's report

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This folder contains letters and documents detailing travel expenses, suggested readings, the Advisory Committee for India and Pakistan, personal writings from 1952 to 1953 including reflections on time in India, an AFSC report for a meeting on the social and technical assistance project from June 30, 1955, and a photograph presumably from that meeting.

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Materials include appointment papers as a teacher at Westtown Boarding School, 1911, visa application, 1941, correspondence on a lecture she would give at the Carolina Institutes of International Relations in 1943, radio appearance in 1945, assistance in the provision of supplies in Europe, 1945, participation in the White House Conference on Children and Youth, 1950, information for Lowry to consider head residency at Pendle Hill, 1954

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Letters are to her family, primarily from Westtown Boarding School in Pennsylvania and discuss classes, customs, teachers, clothing, visits to other families, events, sports, attending Meeting, social life, and people with whom she has association.

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This folder contains letters written and sent by Edith F. Bacon from February 16, 1908 to December 4, 1909 to family and friends.

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This folder contains letters written and sent by Edith F. Bacon from January 9, 1910 to January 14, 1911 to family and friends.

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This folder contains letters written and sent by Edith F. Bacon from February 23, 1912 to June 3,1913 to family and friends.