William Penn in the Hall of Fame

52 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION WILLIAM PENN IN THE HALL OF FAME Our members may feel special satisfaction that the efforts of the Association, and more especially of Charles F. Jenkins and Albert Cook Myers, to secure the election of William Penn to the Hall of Fame at New York University were crowned with success at the recent quinquennial election. Three men were added to the honor roll: William Penn, Simon Newcomb, and Grover Cleveland. The unveiling and presentation of busts of William Penn and Simon Newcomb took place in the Auditorium of New York University on May 28, 1936. The Friends' Historical Association, which had contributed $500 toward the cost of the bust, was represented by its President, William W. Comfort, who made the presentation address at the unveiling. The program of the ceremony was as follows: Presentation of the bust of William Penn, by Dr. William Wistar Comfort, President of Haverford College and of Friends' Historical Association. Unveiling, by Philip Penn-Gaskell Hall, Jr., ninth in descent from William Penn. Presentation of wreath, by Miss Miriam Louise Cummin ) Seniors of the Friends Miss Shirley-Anne Messner V Seminary, New York City. Solo for organ: César Franck's Pièce Héroïque, played by Professor Alfred M. Greenfield. Tribute to Penn, by His Excellency George H. Earle, Governor of Pennsylvania. The bust was executed by A. Stirling Calder of New York, according to information supplied by Albert Cook Myers. It shows a face of youth and vigor, with flowing wig or curls, crowned by a broadbrimmed hat. The Orthodox and Hicksite Monthly Meetings of Hopewell, Frederick County, Virginia, are celebrating the 200th anniversary of the founding of Hopewell on June 20, 1936, at Hopewell Meeting House. They are issuing a memorial history of Hopewell Monthly Meetings, in about 600 pages, under the editorship of John W. Wayland, Ph.D., covering a very interesting period of Colonial Quaker history. ...