Lebanon County PA Archives Obituaries.....Herman, Theodore December 30, 2010
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Published in Lebanon Daily News on January 11, 2011 
Theodore Herman 

CORNWALL Theodore Herman, 97, passed away peacefully on Thursday, Dec. 30, 
2010, at Cornwall Manor, Cornwall. He was the husband of the late Evelyn Mary 
Herman, who passed away on January 24, 2003. Born on March 11, 1913, in 
Philadelphia, he was the son of the late Carl L. and Molly (Leivy) Herman. Ted 
graduated from Swarthmore College in 1934 and obtained a Master's Degree in 
Teaching from Columbia in 1935. During his time at Swarthmore he became a 
Quaker. In 1936, he traveled to Shanghai, China, to accept a teaching post at 
the Shanghai American School. There he met his wife, who was the Warden of the 
Friends Receiving Home in Shanghai, at the Shanghai YMCA. They were married 
twice, once before the Japanese invaded China and again as they departed China 
in 1948 when it was discovered that their marriage records were destroyed. 
While in China and during WWII, Ted was active in the anti-Japanese underground 
and in 1943-1944 was interned by the Japanese in their Haiphong Road Camp, in 
Shanghai. Ted was repatriated to the United States in 1944. His wife had to 
remain in China. He returned to China shortly after the war to rejoin his wife 
and to work for the UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration until it closed 
in 1948. Returning to the U.S., Ted pursued graduate studies in geography at 
the University of Washington, earning a Master's degree in 1951 and his PhD in 
1954. Ted joined the faculty of Colgate University in 1955 as their professor 
of Geography until his retirement in 1980. He was instrumental in founding the 
Peace Studies Program at Colgate, which was more than just an academic program, 
it became Ted's life work. After retirement, Ted became very active with the 
International Peace Research Association and the IPRAF (International Peace 
Research Association Foundation). Ted also devoted much of this time to peace 
activities in Macedonia founding and consulting with the Balkan Peace Studies 
Center in Skopje, Macedonia in the early 1990's. For this effort, he received a 
note of encouragement from Mother Theresa of Calcutta, India. Surviving him are 
a daughter, Evelyn Mae Herman of San Diego, Calif.; a niece, Megan Herman 
Seaman of Denver, Colo.; and his wife's nephew, Walter Liang of Walnut Creek, 
Calif.; and other relatives of his wife who remain in China. He was preceded in 
death by his son, Carl T. Herman.A memorial service has been scheduled by 
Lancaster Friends Meeting Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) on Saturday, 
Jan. 22, 2011, at 1 p.m.

Published in Lebanon Daily News on January 11, 2011 

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