“I’ve tried to put the history of Shipley into a context and include a little bit about what was going on in the world,” says author Trina Vaux ’63.

 

Hardcover, illustrated, 424 pages

 

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Trina Vaux ’63 has worked in public radio, arts management, historic preservation, and in communications for government agencies, schools, and other non-profit organizations. At Shipley, she served as Chair of both the Alumni Board (1989–91) and the Centennial Committee (1993–94), and as a member of the 1994–95 Long-Range Planning Committee. She was the School’s Director of Communications from 1996 to 2011. Learn more about Trina in this 2019 profile.

 

Her other publications include:

with Pitts, Fish, & McCauley

(The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 1977)

(University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983)

with Burke, Sperr, & McCauley

(University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985)

(The Shipley School, 1990)

 

Shipley’s archives—teachers’ files, daily letters written by the Shipley sisters to their father, Board minutes, school publications, and other ephemera—and interviews with some of the people who lived and shaped Shipley’s history.

 

Will van Roden ’87 is a design director and professor of design specializing in printed matter and brand identity. He is known for work for The New York Times, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, and Metropolis Magazine. His teaching experience is with Parsons School of Design and New York University.

 

“Many people in the Shipley community who contributed to the book, read early versions of it, made helpful suggestions, and in general, made it better,” says the author.