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He was born in Janesville, Wisconsin on March 27, 1912. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy. He graduated from Yale College in 1934, where he was president of Dwight Hall Christian Association. He did graduate work in Economics at the University of Wisconsin. In 1947 he went to Shanghai, China as representative of the United Boards for Christian Higher Education in Asia, serving thirteen Christian colleges in China. From 1960 to 1963 he was comptroller of Tunghai University, a Christian university on Taiwan. In the last 35 years he has served in educational administration at church related colleges. Thirteen of those years were at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California. He moved to Tucson, Arizona in 1992, to the Santa Catalina Villas, a retirement center, where he continued community service, working for the Oasis Tutorial Program and mentoring local youth. He was survived by his wife, Jean Hastings Lovejoy, and his five daughters Isabel Best of Geneva, Switzerland; Linda Ewald of Washington, D.C.; Elizabeth Fulton of Berkeley, California; Margaret Baldwin of Orinda, California; and Helen Battad of San Jose, California, as well as eleven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

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Jean Hastings Lovejoy was born in Battle Creek, Michigan on July 1, 1913. She attended secondary schools in France and the US before entering Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, where she graduated with a BA magna cum laude in 1935. She was married to Allen Perry Lovejoy III of Janesville, Wisconsin in 1936. Together they served as missionaries for the Associated Board of Chinese Christian Colleges in Shanghai, China, where Mrs. Lovejoy taught English at St. John's University. Again they served under the United Church Board for World Ministries at Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan. She helped start the Ecumenical Association for Housing for low and moderate income workers in Marin County, California in the 1970's. Lovejoy Way in Novato was named in her honor. She was named Volunteer of the Year in 1970 and 1979 in Marin County. She was also President of the League of Women Voters Central Marin Chapter from 1973 - 75. She was administrator of Hospice of Havasu, Lake Havasu City, AZ in 1983 - 84 and President of the Board of Directors in 1984 - 86. She was a mentor and Stephen Minister at Casas Adobes Congregational Church in Tucson, AZ. Mrs. Lovejoy is survived by her five daughters, eleven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

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Barbara Murdoch Phillips passed away peacefully on November 20, 2010 in Fullerton at the age of 94. Born in Boston on November 16, 1916, she was the only child of Joseph and Maude Murdoch. The family moved to California in 1929. She attended Radcliffe College (BA, Phi Beta Kappa, 1938) and UC Berkeley (MA 1939). At Berkeley she met Horace Phillips, a fellow resident of International House. They married in 1942 and spent the war years in Chicago and Florida. The couple moved to Whittier in 1946 to raise their family. There they remained until 2003, when they moved to Morningside in Fullerton.

Barbara always found herself engaged in various volunteer activities, including the Girl Scouts, the Friendly Hills Women's Club, the Harvard and Radcliffe Club, Friends of the (Whittier) Library, and the St. Matthias Altar Guild. Common to all of these activities were her organizational skills, the lifelong love of language, books, and learning, and her commitment to providing educational opportunities for all. She was also an avid gardener and a skilled practitioner of many arts and crafts. She was always much loved by all who came to know her.

Barbara is survived by her husband of 68 years, Horace, three children; John Phillips of Berkeley, California, Elizabeth Phillips of Princeton, New Jersey, and Susan Phillips of Voorheesville, New York, and one grandchild; Katherine Levinton of Princeton.

We celebrate the life of Barbara Murdoch Phillips at the Morningside complex in Fullerton, CA, on Sunday, December 5, 2010 at 2 PM, and with a funeral service at St. Matthias Episcopal Church in Whittier, CA, on Monday, December 6, 2010, 11 AM.

In lieu of flowers the family asks that donations be made in her name to Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 10 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138, or St. Matthias Episcopal Church, 7056 Washington Ave, Whittier, CA 90602.

Published in the Los Angeles Times on November 30, 2010.