In Memoriam

2025

H.G. Callaway
Resident Member – April 2025

2024

Mary Stewart
Resident Member – December 29
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Sam Grinspan
Resident Member – February 14
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2023

George Fisher
Resident Member – March 9
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2022

Nathan Sivin
Resident Member – June 24
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Peter Arfaa
Resident Member – January 15

David Hamme
Retired Resident – December 9

2021

H.R. Stoneback
Non-Resident – Dec 22, 2021
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Richard Goldberg
Resident Member and Franklin Fellow – May 9, 2021
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Robert M. Gorman
Resident Member – June 10, 2021
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2017

John Raines
1933-2017
Minister and political activist who exposed FBI’s illegal spying campaign in 1971.

2013

Daniel Hoffman
1923-2013
U.S. poet laureate and author of works on Poe and Paul Bunyan.

2011

Lenora Berson
1926-2011
Philadelphia political strategist and commentator.

2008

Judith Eden
1947-2008
Philadelphia lawyer, civic activist, and anti-blight crusader.

1996

E. Digby Baltzel
1915-1996
American sociologist, author and eminent professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He was credited with popularizing the acronym WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant).

1945

N.C. Wyeth
1882-1945
Celebrated artist, illustrator, and father of painter Andrew Wyeth. He was one of America’s greatest illustrators, producing over 112 books.

1938

Owen Wister
1860-1938
Historian, novelist and “father” of western fiction. Best remembered for writing The Virginian.

1916

J. William White
1850-1916
American surgeon, explorer, author and early promoter of physical culture.

1914

S. Weir Mitchell
1829-1914
Distinguished physician and first president of The Franklin Inn Club. He received honorary degrees in the U.S. and abroad in medicine, science, and letters.

1911

Howard Pyle
1853-1911
American illustrator, author, and educator. Pyle taught illustration at the Drexel Institute (Now Drexel University), and with artist Andrew Wyeth, was a member of the Brandywine School.