T. Noel Stern writings

T. Noel Stern was born July 7, 1913 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated with honors from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania in 1934 and received an MA and PhD (1940 and 1942) in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania. He was a Quaker conscientious objector during World War II, choosing to labor on dairy and fruit farms in Pennsylvania and New Jersey instead. After the war he taught at Boston University (1945-1953), was director of the Fondation des Etats-Unis, Universite de Paris (1953-1956), and was president of West Chester State College in Pennsylvania (1960-1961). He joined the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in 1964, founding the Political Science department; he retired in 1985 as professor emeritus. Dr. Stern’s writings include reports produced for government agencies, and articles on Quaker social thought, American and European political philosophy, French politics, African development, civil rights, labor legislation, and forest conservation. In 1988, Stern wrote an autobiographical novel Secret Family concerning his life as the child of parents born out of wedlock in early 1910's America.