Background
Shenton, Herbert Newhard was born on July 9, 1884 in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Robert M. and Helen Louise (Scheck) Shenton.
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Herbert Newhard Shenton
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Bachelor of Philosophy, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1906, Master of Arts, 1909, Doctor of Humane Letters, 1926. Bachelor of Divinity, Drew Theological Seminary, 1910. Union Theological Seminary, 1910-1912.
Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia, 1925.
Career
Student pastor, various times, in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, 1905-1915. Ordained Mechanical Engineering ministry, 1910. Instructor sociology, Columbia, 1912-1925, assistant professor, 1925-1927.
Professor sociology and head of department, Syracuse University, since 1927.
Assistant to Josiah Macy, Junior Foundation since 1934. Chief of reconstruction research division United States Council National Defense, World War, acting director same, and director, June-October 1920.
Executive secretary United States Bituminous Coal Commission, 1920. Organizing secretary United States Anthracite Coal Commission, 1920.
Lecturer, General Staff War College, 1920-1921.
Director of reconnaissance study Young Men's Christian Association and the Young Women"s Christian Association relations throughout United States, 1920-1930.
Achievements
Membership
Member of Executive Committee Methodist Federation for Social Service. Member American Sociological Society (chairman of the section on sociology of religion, 1924-1926), American Statistical Society, American Association for Labor Legislation, American Academy Political and Social Science, American Association University professors, Religious Education Association of the United States and Canada (president 1933-1935. Member of national board directors), Beta Theta Pi, Alpha Kappa Delta, Kappa Phi Kappa.
Executive secretary International Auxiliary Language Association in the United States.
Member National Council and International Committee of Young Men's Christian Association. Mason.; Clubs: Faculty of Columbia University, Town Hall (New York).
Connections
Married Edna Mae Logan, of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, June 27, 1919.
