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George F. Drury

BROOKSVILLE, Maine

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May 13, 2010. Philosopher, teacher, and a founding and sustaining force in the movement for democratically based education. George Drury was born in 1917 in St. Louis and grew up in Chicago, where he graduated from St. Mary of the Lake College. He left Chicago in 1959, having completed a master's...

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George and Fin were everything for me in Maine--a source of friendship, of comfort, of understanding and conversation, of kindness and hope and gentleness and intelligence and grace. I will miss him. deeply.

Condolences to George and Kathy and Finvola.

I offer my sympathy to Ms. Drury and the other members of his family. While i worked with George for only four years at Empire State College, his influence was felt throughout my entire career there and afterwards. He was a foundation stone of the alternative education movement in american higher education. It was my privilege to know him.

tom rocco

I celebrate his long life and his loving way of touching so many people.
Kathryn Gaspar Going