Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Margaret Louise WALKER
Margaret Walker Lippincott,
Prominent Quaker Educator & Peace Advocate
Margaret Louise Walker "Peg" Lippincott, 91, of Haverford, lifelong educator and peace advocate, died peacefully on Tuesday, November 25, 2014 in her home at the Quadrangle.
A birthright member of the Religious Society of Friends, Peg assumed leadership roles in many Quaker organizations, including Media Monthly Meeting, Providence-Media Friends School, Westtown School Board, Friends Council on Education, Swarthmore College Alumni Council, Haverford College Corporation and Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.
Born April 11, 1923 to James French and Alice Bell Walker at Westtown Friends School, Peg based most of her life in Philadelphia dedicated to her community, education, faith and family.
Peg Walker graduated from Westtown School in 1941 and earned a BA in Zoology from Swarthmore College in 1945. She started work in bioresearch in New York City but returned to Philadelphia and the Young Friends Movement where she met her future husband, Philadelphia architect H. Mather Lippincott, Jr. After travelling to Holland to participate in an AFSC work camp following WWII, she began her family life and career as a teacher. Peg and Mather were married for 61 years and raised four sons in the modern house that Mather designed, perched on a hillside in the Philadelphia suburb of Rose Valley.
Peg devoted her life to being a mother, a peace activist and an educator. She taught at The School in Rose Valley and at Westtown School. She was formally recognized in 2002 by the UN Association as a Peace Messenger with a Global Citizenship Award for her work with two organizations she founded, Teaching in a Nuclear Age (TINA) and We The People 2000. Her values-based curriculum engaged hundreds of students from dozens of Philadelphia schools on an innovative group simulation that culminated in a presentation of a newly re-drafted UN Charter to the Deputy Secretary.
Her work enlarged the impact of Quaker education in Friends Schools as part of their outreach and through the networks of their alumni. As a Friendly Presence she was a sojourning teacher in more than 30 Friends Schools in Philadelphia. Pioneering experiences designed to build a Peace Culture , Peg escorted a group of high school students to Russia in 1985. In 1993 she led the Philadelphia delegation of student representatives to the United Nations World Summit on Human Rights in Vienna. It was the first time that children from around the world presented to a Plenary Session of the UN.
Peg enjoyed singing and performing, appearing in dozens of Rose Valley Folk Variety Shows, Gilbert & Sullivan operettas with Savoy Company and international singing tours with the Glee Club of the Union League of Philadelphia.
She is survived by her four sons: Hugh Walker Lippincott of Wellesley, MA, Robert Mather Lippincott of Washington, DC, James Bell Lippincott of Ashby, MA and Evan Jenkins Lippincott of Potomac, MD; her daughters-in-law: Marjorie, Jenifer, Nancy and Krista; nine grandchildren: Margaret, Mathew, Andrew Yates, William, Anabel, Emma, Tess, James and Hannah and her first great-grandchild: Mila Margaret.
A Quaker memorial Meeting for Worship service celebrating her life will be held on April 11, 2015. There will be a private family burial. In lieu of flowers, donations are invited to support The Alice & James Walker Fund at Westtown School.
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