Alison Kelly
David Lehner ’74
Alumni eFacts
Unconventional teacher wins fiction contest in the romance category, page 4.
Alumnus writes about depraved state of affairs, page 5.
Check for selected eQuiz highlights throughout this issue.
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eorgian
A Publication of George School, Newtown, Pennsylvania
Volume 74 • Number 1 • Winter 2002
Steadfast Partners – Lynn Meyer Orr ’47 and John D. Orr ’47, 2002 Alumni Award Recipients By Diana Cutshall
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he most striking feature of Lynn and John Orr’s history is their fidelity — to God, to each other and to George School. Look, for example, at their marriage, now nearing 50 years. Lynn, one of only four girls in the natural science sequence at George School, and John, one of eighteen boys, met in their freshman history class. Although they did not date until their senior year, classmates quickly came to think of them as Lynn ’n John, saying both names like one. After their graduation from George School in 1947, Lynn went to college at the University of Rochester and John to Cornell. Each enrolled in a five-year program. “In those days,” says John, “I did a lot of driving back and forth from Ithaca to Rochester because, well, there was this girl.” In his sophomore year, John was awarded an NROTC scholarship. Over the next three summers, he spent six weeks shipboard and another six working at a dairy bottling plant run by Charles E. Van Schoick ’32. “Even if Lynn and I had found time to get married in college,” laughs John, “we had to wait until I was an officer. The Navy said if they’d wanted me to have a wife, they’d have issued me one.” On June 9, 1952, Lynn and John both were awarded degrees, hers a bachelor’s of science in nursing, his in mechanical engineering. She went to his graduation, not hers. The following Wednesday, June 11, shortly after John was commissioned by the US Navy, they were married.
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Lynn and John Orr will receive Alumni Awards during the Alumni Gathering on Saturday, May 11 at 11 a.m. The awards will honor their nearly 30 years of service and their life-long committment to George School.