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December 2002
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Deaths:
DAVIDSON Amos Graham Davidson, 95, December 28, 2001, Pipe Creek Friends, Maryland. Amos was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, on August 19, 1906, to Amos C. and Margaret Graham Davidson. After working in an Aberdeen shipyard, he undertook a sponsored voyage to Australia at the age of 16 where he first learned about Quakerism. He then came to California and crossed the United States in a flivver to Massachusetts, where he studied forestry before moving to Maryland in the late 1930s. While serving in the army during World War II, he married Louise Lynch. They moved to a farm near Westminster, where they farmed until the late 1950s, when he became the first driver of the library bookmobile. In 1970, he began to attend Pipe Creek Friends and soon became a greatly valued member of his meeting and of Baltimore Yearly Meeting. Besides being a recognized expert on local Quaker and county history, he was meeting recorder for many years and clerk for several years. He was preceeded in death by his wife, Louise. Survivors include one son, D. Graham; one daughter, Barbara; three grandchildren, Eli Seligman, Alee and William Davidson, and eight nieces and nephews.
NEWMAN William Newman, 92, died May 31, 2002, Ridgewood Friends Meeting, New Jersey. A life-long member of the Religious Society of Friends, he was born in Philadelphia, Pa, October 19,1909 to Emma Broomell and Herman Newman. He attended public schools in Chicago, William Penn College in Oskaloosa, Iowa, Friends University, Wichita, Kansas and received his Ph.D. in business from the University of Chicago. Subsequently, he worked for James McKinsey and later, for the Marshall Field Company. In 1936, he co-founded the Academy of Management which has grown to a worldwide membership of 12,000 business scholars and executives. In the same year, he married Clare Berry, also a life-long Friend. William was professor at Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania for 10 years. During World War II, he worked on the War Production Board, petroleum administration. In 1949, he became the first Samuel Bronfman Professor of Democratic Business Enterprise at Columbia University. The Newman's moved to Tenafly, N.J. and transferred their membership from Providence Meeting in Media, Pa. to Ridgewood Friends. They were active and supportive members, assuming many leadership responsibilities. Bill participated in the planning and building of the Ridgewood Meeting House in 1956. During the thirty years at Columbia University, he created the management division at the School of Business. He was an expert in the field of comparative management and the relationship of management to cultural and national identity. Bill's textbooks were translated into ten languages. His work took him behind the Iron Curtain to Yugoslavia after World War II. He was one of the first scholars to visit China in 1979 following the open door policy. Bill continued his scholarly work, teaching business philosophy to senior executives in China until 1995. At the time of his death, he was working on a book about a new model for global economy with Ming-Jer Chen, a Chinese intellectual from the University of Virginia. He was preceeded in death by his wife, Clare. Survivors include his four children, Kenneth, Thomas, Roger, Judith; seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
NICHOLSON Francis Tim Nicholson, Barnegat Meeting. He was born in Chestnut Hill, PA. He attended Media Friends, Moorestown Friends, and Sidwell Friends and graduated from Westtown School in 1942, received his B.S. in physics from Swarthmore College in 1948 and his M.A. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. He married Jean Michener in June, 1948. Frank worked for four decades as an aeronautical engineer in the aerospace industry. As a member of the Mission Design team for the Viking Project, the first U.S. spacecraft to land on Mars, he created navigation sequences that fulfilled mission objectives while conserving fuel to prolong the mission. Later he headed the orbit-determination group for NASA's Galileo Project at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he helped successfully deliver the first atmospheric probe and orbiter to the planet Jupiter. His expertise in inter-planetary trajectory design and optical navigation contributed to the first close-up images of the Gaspra asteroid. NASA awarded him Exceptional Service Medals for both missions, citing "outstanding competence in mission planning." Frank was a member of Lansdowne Friends Meeting where he served as clerk, Orange Grove Meeting in Pasadena, California where he was clerk of both the finance and property committees. Most recently he was a member of Barnegat Meeting. He served on the boards of Westtown School, Camp Dark Waters, and Lansdowne Friends School as clerk. A frequent volunteer for the U.S. Forest Service, he received an Outstanding Service Award from the Los Angeles Volunteer Trail Program after logging over 2,700 hours of trail building in the San Gabriel Mountains. On his retirement to New Jersey at age 70, he enjoyed sailing and volunteer tutoring in mathematics and physics at Ocean County Community College and at Oceanfields juvenile justice detention facility. Survivors include his wife, Jean; six children, Carol, Pat, Erica, Judy, Bob, and Dan; eleven grandchildren, ten nieces and nephews and scores of great nieces and nephews.
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