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Source: Winter 2005 Volume 42 Number 1, Page 2

FROM THE EDITOR

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We have made a number of changes to the format of the Quarterly beginning with this issue. These are designed to make the text easier to read and the overall look more eye-appealing. We have also modified the title slightly.

We are always looking for more photographs and graphic material to give the Quarterly greater interest. If you have a group of photographs and other items showing some place, person, or event in the past that you think our readers would find interesting, please contact the editor. We hope to include more “photographic essays” in future issues and your material may be just what we are looking for.

The articles in this issue describe events and people from the early 1900s, a more recent time period than we often cover. These local stories of school segregation, discrimination against pilots, trolley rights-of-way, bibliophiles, and World War One camps are examples of how “history” has something for everyone.

There are many differing guidelines about whether the word “black” should be capitalized when referring to dark-skinned people originating in Africa. This custom began in the 1960s with the Black Power Movement. The first two articles in this issue take place before that time, therefore we do not capitalize the word “black.”

Please address all comments and questions about the Quarterly to the Editor, Joyce A. Post, 244 Vincent Road, Paoli, PA 19301.

Please join us. Our February 20th meeting at 2 PM in the Tredyffrin/Easttown School District Education Services Center, First Avenue and Bridge Street, Berwyn is about the Pennsylvania Railroad during World War Two. The March 20th meeting is a business meeting at 2 PM at the Easttown Library and Information Center, 720 First Avenue, Berwyn. Please attend and make your voice heard as we discuss the future of our organization. The topic of the April 17th meeting is “Mapping the Main Line.”

Authors retain copyright of their contributions.
The Club does not accept responsibility for the accuracy of the information in the articles.

TREDYFFRIN EASTTOWN HISTORY QUARTERLY
Volume 42, Number 1 – Winter 2005

FRONT COVER: Matthew Corbin as a Primary Flight Cadet in the U.S. Army Air Corps, 1943.

BACK COVER: View of the gardens at Oak Knoll in Daylesford.