Bev Vaughan Jackson

Since 1972 I’ve been living in my original hometown. Dunnville is a small rural town (5,000) in Ontario, 40 mi west of Buffalo on the road between Buffalo and Detroit on the edge of Lake Erie. 

Since I was married (to Jim Vaughan) & lived in Ohio my last 2 years at EC, I didn't keep close ties with my class. Although my primary major was sociology (Human Relations & Social Development Program), I happened upon a library job at Yale Divinity Library and have stayed in libraries and enjoyed it all, until mandatory retirement because of age (couldn’t be!) 40 years later. I spent several years at Temple U Library (loved Philadelphia), then returned to Canada to work at the Univ of Toronto in 1968, marrying Jack from South Carolina in '69. Upon moving to town I immediately became deeply involved in the volunteer association at the local hospital, spending time at the regional and provincial level as well and I’m still at it. For over 30 years I happily worked part time at the local public library.  I've also spent a number of years on the committee that looks after the Quaker Archives for Canada, over 200 years of important Canadian history. Most everyone who does genealogy here finds a Quaker in their family tree!  Presently I’m serving on the corporation of Pickering College, a boarding school begun by Quakers in 1800’s, still striving to adhere to Quaker values. It’s like fostering a mini-Earlham with, like EC, world-wide repercussions.

Jack and I have a daughter and a son, my daughter has 2 young boys and they all live within an hour’s drive. My husband and I, my sister and my daughter are just now recovering from a 2 1/2 year business venture that was a lark.... we had inherited a huge and beautiful (by Dunnville standards!) downtown 2-story retail building, lost our tenant of 30 yrs and were being drained financially by taxes and upkeep. We “invented” our own business to help with costs: It was a vendors' marketplace where vendors rented floor space and stocked it with antiques, crafts, collectibles (and much more) and we did everything else. The “Village Square” was a crashing success among vendors, locals and tourists and became a daytripping destination... however, we finally had a chance to sell the building which we couldn't refuse as offers were few and far between. In April both happily and sadly, we closed.

I’m hoping to get to Earlham in Oct and get reacquainted with classmates. It’s beyond belief that 45 years has passed!

bevjackson@mountaincable.net