Background
Darnell, Doris Hastings was born on September 14, 1916 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Willard Seth and Faith Emily (Olmstead) Hastings.
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Darnell, Doris Hastings was born on September 14, 1916 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Willard Seth and Faith Emily (Olmstead) Hastings.
Bachelor in Latin, Bryn Mawr College, 1939.
Head resident, assistant to director Pendle Hill Graduate School Religious and Social Concerns, Wallingford, Pennsylvania, 1939-1940. Library Reserve Room and science Bryn Mawr (Pennsylvania) College, 1950-1952. Acting head library Westtown (Pennsylvania) Friends School, 1952-1953.
Head library Westtown School, 1954-1955. Library Reserve Room Haverford (Pennsylvania) College, 1953-1954. Executive director, editor Westtown Alumni Association, 1955-1964.
From coordinator recruitment to associate executive secretary personnel American Friends Service Committee, Philadelphia, 1964-1978. Creator, owner A Century of Elegance in Costume and Story, State College, 1980—2007. Governor committee Pendle Hill, Westtown School, Friends Select School, Pennsylvania, 1948—1978.
Member Rufus Jones Associates, Haverford College. Founding trustee Allen Hilles Fund, 1982—1991, trustee emerita, from 1991. Lecturer, exhibitor 19th and 20th century fashions, from 1980.
Member American Civil Liberties Union, American Dental Association, American Association of University Women, Costume Society American, Palmer Art Museum, Women in theArts.
Married Howard Clayton Darnell, August 27, 1938. Children: Elizabeth Loyd, John Hastings, Eric Allen.