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Vining, Elizabeth Gray was born on October 6, 1902 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of John Gordon and Anne (Iszard) Gray.
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Preface To have lived for three years so close to the mind and spirit of Rufus M. Jones has been a rare privilege and an experience both stimulating and satisfying. It has also brought me into contact with many other persons, to whom I wish to express my warm appreciation of their generous aid and advice. My thanks go first of all to Rufus Jones sdaughter, Mary Hoxie Jones, who has given me unstinted help and encouragement. She has, in the first place, put at my disposal the wealth of manuscript material which came to light after her fathers death. This includes letters, both to and from Rufus Jones, family correspondence over a long span of years, notebooks, calendars, photographs, manuscripts of articles, addresses and books, and the unpublished Journal of his first trip to the Orient. This material, which was assembled and classified, first by Mary Hoxie Jones and her mother, Elizabeth B. Jones, and then, after Mrs. Jones sdeath at Haverford in 1952, by Miss Ruth Hays Smith, is now housed in the Library of Haverford College, for restricted use. It includes also notes taken by Mary Hoxie Jones on conversations with her father during the years 1939 to 1948, and after her fathers death with friends who remembered him, some of whom are no longer living. I am grateful also to Mary Hoxie Jones for permission to quote copiously from her invaluable brief biography, Rufus M. Jones, published in England in pamphlet form by the Friends Home Service Committee, London, 1955. And not least of all I am indebted to her for her tireless willingness to answer questions of all kinds and to check points of fact. To Henry J. Cadbury I am grateful for a sympathetic and careful reading of the whole manuscript and to Lydia C. Cadbury for her translation from the German of the letters of Theodor Sippell to Rufus Jones. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Fo
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Vining, Elizabeth Gray was born on October 6, 1902 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of John Gordon and Anne (Iszard) Gray.
AB, Bryn Mawr College, 1923. Master of Science in liberal studies, Drexel Institute of Technology, 1926. Doctor of Letters, Drexel Institute of Technology, 1951.
Doctor of Letters, Tufts College, 1952. Doctor of Letters, Douglas College, 1953. Doctor of Letters, Women's Medical College Philadelphia, 1953.
Doctor of Letters, Lafayette College, 1956. Doctor of Letters, University North Carolina-Greensboro, 1968. Doctor of Humane Letters, Russell Sage College, 1952.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Haverford College, 1958. Doctor of Humane Letters, Western College Women, 1959. Doctor of Humane Letters, Cedar Crest College, 1959.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Moravian College, 1961. Doctor of Humane Letters, Wilmington College, 1962. Doctor of Humane Letters, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan, 1966.
D.Ed., Rhode Island College Education, 1956.
She was a graduate of Germantown Friends School and received an Bachelor of Arts from Bryn Mawr College in 1923. In 1926, she earned an Mississippi in library science from the Drexel Institute, and became a librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During her convalescence, she converted to the Quaker faith.
She had published eleven books by the end of World World War World War II From 1946 to 1950 during the Allied occupation of Japan after the war, Vining was selected by Emperor Hirohito himself (and not the United States government, as is erroneously claimed) to become a private tutor to Crown Prince Akihito, the heir apparent to the Chrysanthemum Throne.
As part of her teaching program, she arranged for closely supervised occasions when four Western teenaged boys in Tokyo would get together to help the crown prince practice English conversation. In addition to teaching English-language skills, Vining introduced the children of the Imperial Household — Prince Hitachi and the Princesses Kazuko, Atsuko and Takako — to Western values and culture.
She also lectured at Gakushuin University and at Tsuda College. After her return to the United States, Vining wrote a book about her experiences in Japan in Windows for the Crown Prince, which appeared in 1952.
Vining went on to write over 60 fiction and non-fiction books in her lifetime.
She also worked on the Board of Trustees of Bryn Mawr, as vice-president from 1952 to 1971 and was vice-chairwoman of the Board of Directors at the same time. She received an honorary Doctorate of Literature from Wilmington College in 1962. Order of the Sacred Treasure, 1950.
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Married Morgan Fisher Vining, Jan 31, 1929 (deceased 1933).