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Biographical Notes and Organizational History
Frank Buchman
Date | Event |
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1878, June 4 | Born, Pennsburg, Pa. |
1899 | B.A., Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa. |
1899-1902 | Attended Mt. Airy Seminary, Philadelphia, Pa. |
1902 | Ordained Lutheran minister |
1905 | In charge of Luther Hospice, Philadelphia, Pa. |
1908 | Traveled to Europe and England |
1909-1915 | Secretary, YMCA at Pennsylvania State College, State College, Pa. |
1915-1919 | Toured Asia under YMCA auspices |
1916-1922 | Part-time lecturer, Hartford Theological Seminary, Hartford, Conn. |
1921 | Visited Cambridge and Oxford, England, where the foundation was laid for the fellowship later called the Oxford Group |
1926 | Honorary doctorate, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa. |
1929 | Traveled to South Africa with the Oxford Group |
1931-1938 | Led Oxford Group teams to Scandinavia, Holland, Canada, and the United States |
1938 | Inaugurated campaign for Moral Re-armament at East Ham Town Hall, London, England |
1939 | Launched campaign for Moral Re-armament in New York, Washington, D.C., and California |
1940 | Initiated You Can Defend America program |
1942 | Suffered paralytic stroke |
1942-1947 | Conducted Moral Re-armament summer training sessions, Mackinac Island, Mich. |
1946 | Presented first annual World Assembly for Moral Re-armament, Caux, Switzerland, headquarters |
1952-1957 | Traveled with Moral Re-armament teams throughout Asia, Australia, and Europe |
1961, Aug. 7 | Died, Freudenstadt, West Germany |
Ray Foote Purdy
Date | Event |
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1889 | Born, Brooklyn, N.Y. |
1920 | B. A., Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. |
1920-1922 | Master, Taft School, Watertown, Conn. |
1923 | Assistant to the president, Eastman Dillon & Co., New York, N.Y. |
1923-1924 | Attended Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, N.J. |
1923-1927 | General Secretary, Philadelphian Society, Princeton, N.J. |
1925 | Married Elsa Toennies |
1927 | Attended Mansfield College, Oxford, England |
1928 | Ordained to ministry, Throop Avenue Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, N.Y. |
1928-1965 | Full-time service and director, Oxford Group and Moral Re-armament; director, Oxford Group and Moral Re-armament |
1965, Oct. 30 | Died, Atlanta, Ga. |
Kenaston Twitchell
Date | Event |
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1903, Apr. 8 | Born, Brooklyn, N.Y. |
1924 | B.A., Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. |
1927 | Married Marian Dominick Smith |
1929 | Traveled to South Africa with the Oxford Group |
circa 1930 | M. A., Balliol College, Oxford University, Oxford, England |
1947 | Convened meeting of Konrad Adenauer and other postwar German leaders, Caux, Switzerland |
1950 | Traveled to Japan, where he brought the mayors of Nagasaki and Hiroshima and a later prime minister, Yasushiro Nakasone, to a Moral Re-Armament conference |
1973 | Retired from Moral Re-armament |
circa 1981 | Published Regeneration in the Ruhr: The Unknown Story of a Decisive Answer to Communism in Postwar Europe. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press |
1988, Oct. 30 | Died, Princeton, N.J. |
Organizational History of Moral Re-armament
Date | Event |
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1918 | Houseparty strategy of conversion begun in China by Frank Buchman |
1921 | Foundation laid for First Century Christian Fellowship and later the Oxford Group |
1925-1926 | "Buchmanism" investigated by Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. |
1929 | Oxford Group toured South Africa |
1931-1937 | Oxford Group teams sent to Scandinavia, Holland, Canada, the United States, and South America |
1933-1940 | Oxford Group supplement published in the New Witness |
1936 | National Assembly, Stockbridge, Mass. |
1937 | Rising Tide published |
1938 | Campaign for Moral Re-armament begun at East Ham Town Hall, London, England World Assembly for Moral Re-armament, Interlaken, Switzerland |
1939 | Moral Re-armament movement launched in the United States World Assembly for Moral Re-ReArmament, Monterey, Calif. |
1940 | Peter Howard joined movement (died 1965) |
1941-1945 | "You Can Defend" America program |
1942 | Premier of the movie, The Forgotten Factor |
1943-1945 | Controversy regarding Selective Service deferments for members of Moral Re-armament |
1946 | First annual World Assembly for Moral Re-armament at Caux, Switzerland, headquarters New World News published |
1947 | Purchase of Westminster Theatre, London, England |
1948 | Production of the play, The Good Road in Germany World Conference for Moral Re-armament, Los Angeles, Calif. |
1949 | The College of the Good Road organized |
1951 | Assembly for the Reconstruction of Pacific Relations, Los Angeles, Calif. Production of the play An Idea Takes Wings Production of the play Jotham Valley |
1952 | Assembly of the Americas, Miami, Fla. |
1953 | Condemned by the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions |
1954-1955 | Report on Moral Re-armament issued by the Church of England Social and Industrial Council |
1955 | Production of the play Vanishing Island |
1955-1956 | Statesmen's missions to Europe and Asia |
1957 | Production the plays Freedom and The Crowning Experience |
1961 | Peter Howard assumed worldwide leadership of the movement Production of the play, The Tiger |
1963-1964 | Production of the play, Space Is So Startling |
1964 | Production of the motion picture, Tomorrow's American |
1965 | Up With People launched First of several yearly Up With People "Sing Outs" Founding of Mackinac College, Mackinac, Mich. Peter Howard died and no successor appointed; each country developed own leadership |
1970 | All Moral Re-armament publications ceased |
1975 | Up With People separates from Moral Re-armament |
1976 | Moral Re-armament presents Buchman's Allentown, Pa., home to Lehigh County Historical Society, which opened it to the public |
1989 | United States President George H. W. Bush commemorated MRA on its fiftieth anniversary International conference, Caux, Switzerland |