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Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 30, No. 1 Ned D Ursinus College Digital Commons @ Ursinus College Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine Pennsylvania Folklife Society Collection Fall 1980 Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 30, No. 1 Ned D. Heindel Natalie I. Foster Lisa Colbert Lee C. Hopple Johannes Naas See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag Part of the American Art and Architecture Commons, American Material Culture Commons, Christian Denominations and Sects Commons, Cultural History Commons, Ethnic Studies Commons, Fiber, Textile, and Weaving Arts Commons, Folklore Commons, Genealogy Commons, German Language and Literature Commons, Historic Preservation and Conservation Commons, History of Religion Commons, Linguistics Commons, and the Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons Click here to let us know how access to this document benefits oy u. Recommended Citation Heindel, Ned D.; Foster, Natalie I.; Colbert, Lisa; Hopple, Lee C.; Naas, Johannes; Kulp, Clarence Jr.; Milspaw, Yvonne J.; and Young, A. E., "Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 30, No. 1" (1980). Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine. 90. https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag/90 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Pennsylvania Folklife Society Collection at Digital Commons @ Ursinus College. It has been accepted for inclusion in Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Ursinus College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Authors Ned D. Heindel, Natalie I. Foster, Lisa Colbert, Lee C. Hopple, Johannes Naas, Clarence Kulp Jr., Yvonne J. Milspaw, and A. E. Young This book is available at Digital Commons @ Ursinus College: https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag/90 ED D. H El DEL, Ph.D., is Professor of C hemistry JOHANNES NAAS (d. 1741) was a religious pioneer at Lehigh University, Bethl ehem, PA, and Professor of in the C hurch of the Brethren. He, Alexander Mack, Nuclear Medicine at Hahnemann Medical College. In Peter Becker and John Jacob Price were founders addition to profes ional intere ts in the development of of the faith on the Eder, though harrassment sent tumor-detecting radioactive pharmaceuticals he has all fo ur to Pennsylvania, Naas the last leader to go. avocational intere t in the hi tory of medici ne and He had been German Reformed befo re he assumed chemi try. Dunker leader hip. Naas organized the Brethren con­ gregations in West Jersey. ISAAC CLARE CE KULP ,Jr. , of Vernfield, PA, is NATALIE I. FOSTER , D .A., i A si tant Profe sor a folklorist and local historia n, whose specialty is of Chemi try at Cedar Crest o ll ege and Research the Indian Creek-Goschenhoppen area of Montgomery A ociate at Lehigh Uni er ity. Her research intere ts County. H e apprenticed under Alfred L. Shoemaker bridge organic ynthetic chemi try, radio-iodination and Thomas Brendle. Articles by Kulp have appeared technique and patent medicine manufacturers in earl y in PE SYL VA fA FOLKLIFE and Bulletin of America. Dr. Fo ter i Secretary-Trea urer of the Historical Society of Mo ntgomery County; was Editor Division of History of Chemi try of the American of The Goschenhoppen Region, and wrote A Brethren Chemical Society. Pilgrimage in 1976. YVON E J . MILSPAW, Ph.D. , Associate Professor of Folklore and American Studies at the Pennsylvania LISA COLBE RT, of York, PA., i a tudent at Miller - State Univer ity-Capitol Campus, i a resident of ville State College, where her major i Foreign Language . She is both participant in, and product of the Penn­ Middletown, PA. She ha been active in Folk Cultural and Historical organization in Pennsylvania. Most sylvania German Cul ture Program of Professor C. recently Dr. Mil paw has a sisted in the production of Richard Beam; under hi direction he prepared the a television serie on Ethnic Minorities in the Keystone initial draft of this timely, ympathetic, yet still ob­ jective account. State. A . E. YOU G of Radnor, PA, has worked both in the Quaker State and in North Carolina. He has LEE C . HOPPLE, Ph.D ., Professor of Geography followed hi s hi torical and folk cultural interests not and Director of Institutional Planning at Bloom ­ only into the graveyards but into a study of the burg State College, has written seminal work in the philosophie of individuals. He took hi s undergrad­ area of demographic and spatial geography, the new uate degree at Cornell University and has done further geography of people movement. Having previou Iy study at University of Chicago, Harvard and M.l.T.; examined migration geography of Pennsylvania Plain hi work has been in in urance, in marketing and sales Dutchmen in PENNSYLVANIA FOLKLIFE, he focuses promotion and most recently in consulting and coun- on members of the Church of the Brethren in this issue. eling. EDITOR: AUTUMN 1980, VOL. XXX, No.1 William T. Parsons EDITORIAL ADVI SORY COMMITTEE: Mac E. Barrick Monroe H. Fabian CONTENTS John B. Franz Thomas E. Gallagher, Jr. Albert T. Gamon 2 The Allentown Academy: America's First Mrs. Arthur D. Graeff German Medical School Howell J. Heaney NED D. HE INDEL & NATALIE I. FOSTER Heinrich Kelz Earl F. Robacker Karl Scherer 9 Amish Attitudes and Treatment of D1ness Antje Sommer LISA COLBERT Don Yoder FOLK FESTIVAL DIRECTOR : 16 Germanic European Origins and Geograph­ Mark R. Eaby, Jr. ical History of the Southeastern Pennsyl­ FOLK FESTIVAL PUBLIC RELATIONS : vania Dunkards Peg Zecher LEE C. HOPPLE SUBSCRIPTIONS: Nancy K. Gaugler PENNSYLVANIA FOLKLIFE, 29 The Voyage of Bishop Naas 1733 Autumn 1980, Vol. 30, No.1, pub­ JOHANNES NAAS lished four times a year by Penn­ (Introduction by ISAAC CLARENCE KULP, JR.) sylvania Folklife Society, Inc., P.O. Box 92, Collegeville, Pa. 19426. $2.00 for single copies, Autumn, 36 Segregation in Life, Segregation in Death: Winter & Spring. $l.50 for Summer. Landscape of an Ethnic Cemetery Yearly subscription $7.00; Back is­ YVONNE J . MILSPA W sues, $2.50 each. MSS AND PHOTOGRAPHS: 41 "Rest in Peace, Joseph Hewes!" The Editor will be glad to consider A.E. YOUNG MSS and photographs sent with a view to publication. When unsuit­ able, and if accompanied by return 46 Aides un Neies/Old & New postage, care will be exercised to­ ward their return, although no re­ sponsibility for their safety is as­ CONTRIBUTORS sumed. (Insidefront cover) Editorial correspondence: Dr. William T. Parsons P.O. Box 92, COVER: Collegeville, Pennsylvania 19426 Dr. Constantine Hering became President of the Subscription, business correspondence: North American Academy in Allentown in its form­ P .O. Box 92, ative stage when merely thirty-three years of age. Collegeville, Pennsylvania 19426 Already a world traveler, Hering had served as medi­ Folk Festival correspondence: cal missionary in South America. Professor, exe­ College Blvd. and Vine, Kutztown, Pennsylvania 19530 cutive, editor and author, he was the driving force Folk Festival public relations: behind the new Lehigh Valley institution. Peg Zecher, 26 E. Knowlton Rd ., Layout and Media, Pennsylvania 19063 Special Photography: WILLIAM MUNRO Contents copyrighted. Entered as second class matter at CoUegeville. Pa. ISSN 0031-4498 ~fJc 2fllClttOWll 2fcabem\j: 2lJltcricat~ ~ir~t 6)erlualt IDlebical ecOool by Ned D . Heindel and Natalie I. Fo ter rll~ of TH~ NOnnl .\llf.nICA. 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