John Woodbridge Herring

Background

Herring, John Woodbridge was born on June 15, 1891 in Winterset, Iowa, United States. Son of Hubert Clinton and Mary (Woodbridge) Herring.

Education

Student, Oberlin College, 1910-1912; AB, Oberlin College, 1914; student, Columbia University, 1912-1913; student, Oberlin Theological Seminary, 1914-1915; student, Chicago Theological Seminary, 1915-1917.

Career

Organizer metropolitan councils adult education, from 1924; coordinator emergency adult education program, Works Progress Administration, New York City, 1934-1935; supervisor, New York State Adult Education Program, 1936-1954; director, Greater Kansas City Adult Education Association, 1954-1956; coordinator, Sardinian Community Development Project, European Productiivity Agency, 1957; minister, Unitarian Society of Pomono Valley, 1958-1961; minister, San Bernadino Unitarian Society, from 1961.

Achievements

• John Woodbridge Herring has been listed as a noteworthy educator, clergyman by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Social planning and adult education,
  • Trails To The New America

Membership

Director citizen unity program New York State War Council, 1942.

Connections

Married Ruth Catherine Rhodes, August 1, 1917. Children: John Woodbridge, Thomas Hubert, Joan Elizabeth. Married Lorine Pruette, 1932.

Married Helen M. Day, 1936. Children: Howard Theodore, Peter James.

Father:

Hubert Clinton Herring

Mother:

Mary (Woodbridge) Herring

Spouse:

Helen M. Day

Spouse:

Lorine Pruette

Spouse:

Ruth Catherine Rhodes

child:

Joan Elizabeth Herring

child:

Thomas Hubert Herring

child:

Peter James Herring

child:

John Woodbridge Herring

child:

Howard Theodore Herring