Howard Eldred Kershner

Background

Kershner, Howard Eldred was born on November 17, 1891 in Tescott, Kansas, United States. Son of Isaiah and Cora (Lett) Kershner.

Education

Graduate, Fowler Friends' Academy, Kansas, 1910. AB, Friends' University, Wichita, Kansas, 1914. Honorary Doctor of Laws, Friends' University, Wichita, Kansas, 1948.

Graduate student, Harvard, 1924. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Washington and Jefferson College, 1941. Doctor of Letters, Grove City College, Pennsylvania, 1957.

Doctor of Divinity, George Fox College, 1969. Doctor of Humanities, Northwood Institute, 1970.

Career

With Boston real estate office, 1914-1916; editor public, Dodge City (Kansas) Daily Journal, 1917-1918; assistant to chief newspaper section, War Industries Board, Washington, 1918; real estate operator in, Boston, Kansas and Florida, 1919-1927; publisher, National American Society, New York City, 1927-1938; director relief in Europe for, American Friends Committee, 1939-1942; executive vice president, director, International Commission Child Refugees, 1939-1952; director child feeding, (Spanish Civil War), 1939-1940; director child feeding, (in unoccupied France), 1940-1942; director child feeding, (obtained funds from grants by 24 goverments) member board, Save the Children Federation, 1950-1965; vice chairman, Save the Children Federation, 1945-1950; secretary, Save the Children Federation, 1959-1969; radio-television commentator, 1952-1968; visiting professor current economics problems, Northwood Institute, 1974-1982. Professor economics Fuller Theological Seminary, Winona Lake, Indiana, summers 1961-1963. Also editor newsletter Answers to Economic Problems.

Achievements

• Made more than 300 radio addresses about condition of children in Europe. Also weekly news commentator on 325 radio stations, called Howard Kershner's Commentary on the News, 1957-1975. Donor personal archives University Oregon, Eugene.
  
  Co-founder Center for Business and Economics, George Fox College, Newberg, Oregon and donor library and personal effects.

Works

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  • God, Gold and Government: The Interrelationship of Christianity Freedom self-gov

    (A primer for Tea Party members. Written 1957.)

  • God Gold and Government Wise Down-to-earth Advice on How to Apply Christian Principles and Practices to Our Daily Affairs

    (146 pages)

  • Quaker service in modern war
  • God, Gold and Government
  • How to stay in love with one woman for seventy years

Membership

Member American-African Affairs association, National Tax Reform Committee, American Emergency committee Panama Canal, Committee to Unite American, council advisers, Committee to Restore Constitution. Sponsoring committee For American. Advisory board Supreme Court Amendment League.

Member American Conservative Union. National advisory board SCALE. Senior advisory board Youth for Decency.

Executive committee National Committee Food Small Democracies, 1942-1949. Former director Cooperative American Relief Everywhere. Founder, chairman Temporary Council on Food for European Children, 1943-1945.

Diplomatic mission to principal Latin-American capitals, seeking grants for International Children's Fund of United Nations, 1947-1948. One of founders Christian Freedom Foundation, Inc., president, 1950-1972, chairman board, 1972-1974. Member New York board directors Community Development Foundation.

Member committee for monetary research and education University Oregon, Eugene. Member Mont Pelerin Society. Member International Platform Association.

Connections

Married Gertrude Elizabeth Townsend, July 6, 1915 (deceased September 1976). Children: Wendell Townsend, Margaret Lynette (Mistress Stephen C. Weber), Mary Linaford (Mistress Glenn C. Bassett, Junior). Married Lenore Bowers, September 10, 1978 (deceased February 1981).

Married Mary Hagedorn DuVall, February 14, 1982.

Father:

Isaiah Kershner

Mother:

Cora (Lett) Kershner

Spouse:

Gertrude Elizabeth Townsend

Spouse:

Mary Hagedorn DuVall

child:

Junior);m. Lenore Bowers Kershner

child:

Margaret Lynette Kershner (Mistress Stephen C. Weber)

child:

Wendell Townsend Kershner

child:

Mary Linaford (Mistress Glenn C. Bassett Kershner

child:

September 10 Kershner

child:

1978 Kershner (deceased February 1981)