Call Number:

MC.950.179

Repository:

Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Extent:

.01 linear ft. (1 folder)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Norman Wilson articles (HC.MC.950.179), Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.

Date:

1956-1974 (inclusive)

Creator:

Wilson, Norman

Form:

manuscripts (documents)

Abstract:

This collection is comprised of a single folder of the articles of Norman H. Wilson, typed and xeroxed, many of which focus on education in the United States and abroad. Also includes brochures for the First and Second Annual Normal Wilson Memorial Conferences. The collection also includes an itemized index of each article.

Norman Wilson (1926-1973) was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1926. He graduated from Antioch College, the school at which he became a Quaker, in 1951. He then received a master's from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in education from Columbia University. Wilson taught in New York before moving to Tokyo to serve as the director of the Asian Center for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). He then became the peace education secretary for the ASFC's New York office. He also served as the director of the Antioch-Putney Graduate School of Education. He died of cancer in Vermont in 1973, at age 47.

Biographical information from the New York Times.

This collection is comprised of a single folder of the articles of Norman H. Wilson, typed and xeroxed, many of which focus on education in the United States and abroad. Also includes brochures for the First and Second Annual Normal Wilson Memorial Conferences. The collection also includes an itemized index of each article.