Background
Kline, Harvey Swope was born on April 10, 1921 in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Harvey W. and Violet J. (Swope) Kline.
non-profit corporation executive
Kline, Harvey Swope was born on April 10, 1921 in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Harvey W. and Violet J. (Swope) Kline.
AB, Elizabethtown College, 1943. Doctor of Divinity (honorary), Elizabethtown College, 1984. Bachelor Divinity, Bethany Seminary, Oak Brook, Illinois, 1946.
MST, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1969.
Pastor Stover Memorial Church Brethren, Des Moines, 1946-1948, Franklin Grove (Illinois) Church Brethren, 1948-1952, Uniontown (Pennsylvania) Church Brethren, 1952-1955, Baltimore-Dundalk Church Brethren, 1955-1963, Chambersburg (Pennsylvania) Church Brethren, 1963-1971. Administrator The Brethren Home, New Oxford, Pennsylvania, 1971-1987. President The Brethren Home Foundation and subsidiary corporations The Brethren Home, The Brethren Management Services Corporation, The Brethren Home Title Holding Company, since 1987.
Executive secretary Church Brethren Annual Conference Committee on Health and Welfare, 1977-1979. Board directors Gettysburg National Bank.
Board directors Brook Lane Psychiatric Center, Hagerstown, Maryland, since 1986. Certified fellow American College Health Care Administrators (nominating committee national convocation 1984, 85, secretary Pennsylvania chapter 1983-1984, vice president Pennsylvania chapter 1984-1987, membership chairman Pennsylvania chapter 1986-1987). Member Brethren Homes and Hospital Association (executive committee since 1983), Hanover Chamber of Commerce (membership committee 1984-1985, committee chairman 1985-1987, board directors since 1984).
Lodges: Rotary (Paul Harris fellow 1984, travelogue chair 1986-1987, senior citizens committee since 1987) (Hanover, Pennsylvania).
Married Ruth Zimmerman, August 14, 1943. Children: Nancy L. Kline Gunden, H. John, Joel D.