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Notes for Lysbeth K. BOYD
The Philadelphia Inquirer (PA) – June 20, 1990:
LYSBETH B. BORIE, 87, POET AND CIVIC ACTIVIST
Lysbeth Boyd Borie, a poet and civic worker, died Sunday in Wyndmoor. She was 87 and had been a Chestnut Hill resident for the last 50 years.
Mrs. Borie wrote three books of children’s poetry. Her best-known work, Poems for Peter, was published in 20 editions over 50 years and widely distributed through the city Board of Education.
Mrs. Borie’s adult poetry was published over a half-century in Harper’s, the Atlantic Monthly, the Saturday Evening Post and other magazines.
From 1957 until her retirement in 1972, Mrs. Borie was on the staff of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. As the museum’s director of public relations, she originated the museum’s volunteer guide service, the first members’ newsletter, and the original Cultural Loop Bus along the Parkway.
Mrs. Borie was a 1920 graduate of the Agnes Irwin School, where she later won the Margretta Anspash Willings Distinguished Alumnae Award. She attended Bryn Mawr College, Class of 1925, returning from 1953 to 1957 to be editor of the Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin.
Mrs. Borie was active for many years on numerous civic and cultural boards and committees. She was a past president of the Junior League of Philadelphia, a charter member of the Advisory Board of the Friends of Independence National Historical Park and a founding member of the Cosmopolitan Club.
She also was an honorary member of the board of the Independence Hall Association, and a member of the Museum Council of Philadelphia, the Friends of the Chestnut Hill Library and the Chestnut Hill Historical Society.
She also was an associate of the Morris Arboretum and a member of the Friends of the Wissahickon and the Fairmount Park Association.
For more than 50 years, she was married to Henry P. Borie, a manufacturer’s representative and a major in the Army during World War II. Mr. Borie died in 1980 at the age of 80.
She is survived by sons, Henry P. Jr. and David; a sister; six grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren.
A funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 22 E. Chestnut Hill Ave., Philadelphia. Burial will be private.
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