Series 3 Esther Collins Darlington

Esther Collins Darlington was born in Woodstown, NJ, a birthright member of Woodstown Monthly Meeting. She graduated from the George School in 1954 and from Swarthmore College in 1958. She married Alburt M. Rosenberg in 1958 at Woodstown Monthly Meeting and briefly taught school at Moorestown Friends School. In 1959, Alburt starting teaching physics and biology at Swarthmore College, and they moved to Springfield, Pa. (Swarthmore Post Office, on border between the municipalities), becoming members of Swarthmore Monthly Meeting. Esther and Alburt Rosenberg had four children: Eleanor, Elizabeth, Amy and Kenneth. After the death of her father in February 1966, she edited his memoirs which were published in two volumes later that year. From 1974 until her death in 1982, Esther’s mother, Eleanor Collins Darlington lived with them in Swarthmore in declining health. Esther and Alburt divorced in 1985, and he later remarried. From 1986-1994, Esther served as director of the Harned, a small Quaker retirement home in Wallingford, Pa., under the care of Media Monthly Meeting of which she became a member. She pursued interests in local history and family genealogy and was active in Quaker and peace organizations. Esther Darlington served on the Board of Pendle Hill beginning in 1969 and was active in Media Monthly Meeting, Quarterly, and Philadelphia Yearly Meeting as well at the Round Table Associates which met to study Jungian psychology. She worked as the Information Librarian for Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 2000-June 2004 and then moved to Ithaca, NY, where she died in 2015.