Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Stephen Grellet CARY
The shock of seeing what World War II had done to Europe convinced Stephen G. Cary that his life's work had to be for peace.
He was running the American Friends Service Committee's European relief operations in 1946 when he was exposed to the ravages of war that wrecked a large part of the European continent.
"No one, no one could have seen and been a part of the agony, to really experience firsthand the cost of war, without wanting to spend the rest of his life trying to prevent it from happening again," he said at the time.
Cary, Philadelphia-based Quaker activist and administrator who worked tirelessly not only for world peace but for civil rights and social justice in a long career, died Monday at his summer home in Chatham, Mass. He was 86.
After his European service, Cary served as assistant to the executive secretary (director) of the AFSC under the late Clarence Pickett, was chief administrator for the AFSC's domestic programs from 1950-1959, and in 1959 was named associate executive secretary (director), coordinating AFSC's U.S. regional offices.
Cary accompanied a Quaker goodwill team that visited the Soviet Union in 1955 and conducted a three-month program exploration for AFSC in South Vietnam in 1965.
He went to jail in Washington, D.C., for 15 days for demonstrating in support of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference during the Poor People's Campaign in 1968.
Cary was a graduate of Germantown Friends School and Haverford College, and received a master's degree from Columbia University. He was a conscientious objector during World War II.
In 1969, Cary was named vice president for development at Haverford College, where in 1978 he was acting president. He retired in 1981.
Cary was also a daring adventurer. Starting at age 60, he engaged in a number of exploits that included hiking in the Himalayas, sailing around Cape Horn on a 100-foot schooner, following Darwin's path in the Galapagos, and bare boating (sailing with no paid crew) in the Pacific with six other octogenarians.
Services: A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Sept. 14, at Germantown Friends Meeting.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the American Friends Service Committee, Haverford College, or Germantown Friends School. *
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