{"id":3137871,"date":"2026-06-01T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/richard-leete-eldridge\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T00:35:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T04:35:49","slug":"richard-leete-eldridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/es\/richard-leete-eldridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Leete Eldridge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Eldridge<\/strong>\u2014<em>Richard Leete Eldridge<\/em>, 85, el 3 de octubre de 2025. Rich naci\u00f3 el 8 de junio de 1940. Obtuvo una licenciatura en Oberlin College, en Ohio; un m\u00e1ster en educaci\u00f3n en Cornell University, en Nueva York; y un doctorado en literatura estadounidense en la University of Maryland.  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rich se hizo Amigo en Baltimore, Maryland, cuando \u00e9l y su familia se unieron a Stony Run Meeting. Su primer cargo en la educaci\u00f3n de Los Amigos fue como miembro del patronato de Baltimore Friends School, donde \u00e9l y su anterior c\u00f3nyuge, Lucy, matricularon a sus dos hijos, David y Susan. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rich sigui\u00f3 activo en la educaci\u00f3n de Los Amigos a medida que su trabajo trasladaba a su familia por la costa del Atl\u00e1ntico medio. Fue director de Buckingham Friends School en Lahaska, Pensilvania; de Friends Seminary en la ciudad de Nueva York; y de Willow School en Peapack-Gladstone, Nueva Jersey. Ocup\u00f3 varios cargos en el Community College of Baltimore County, entre ellos director de operaciones del campus de Harbor, vicedecano de profesorado en la Divisi\u00f3n de Humanidades y profesor de ingl\u00e9s. Imparti\u00f3 clases de ingl\u00e9s en Seisen University, en Tokio (Jap\u00f3n), durante el curso 1965-1966.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rich form\u00f3 parte de numerosos consejos, entre ellos Friends Academy en Locust Valley, Nueva York (donde tambi\u00e9n fue director interino durante un a\u00f1o); Oakwood Friends School en Poughkeepsie, Nueva York; Pennswood Village en Newtown, Pensilvania; y Friends Publishing Corporation, editora de <em>Friends Journal<\/em>, de 1989 a 1996, incluido su servicio como secretario del consejo. Particip\u00f3 muy activamente en Friends Council on Education. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">El estudio de Rich sobre la literatura estadounidense le llev\u00f3 a investigar a Jean Toomer, un escritor del Renacimiento de Harlem. M\u00e1s tarde, Toomer se convirti\u00f3 en miembro de Buckingham Meeting. Cuando Rich y su familia se mudaron al condado de Bucks, Pensilvania, se hicieron miembros de Doylestown Meeting.  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rich fue un escritor prol\u00edfico en m\u00faltiples g\u00e9neros. El libro que coescribi\u00f3 con Cynthia Earl Kerman, <em>The Lives of Jean Toomer: A Hunger for Wholeness<\/em> (1987), fue considerado para un Premio Pulitzer. Sus publicaciones tambi\u00e9n incluyen art\u00edculos, relatos y poemas. Rich escribi\u00f3 el libreto de una opereta sobre la rebeli\u00f3n de 1800 de Gabriel Prosser contra la esclavitud y siete musicales que se representaron en Buckingham Friends School. El primero de ellos, <em>The Frog Prince<\/em>, se repuso en Friends Seminary.    <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tras jubilarse de Willow School a los 65 a\u00f1os, Rich se convirti\u00f3 en profesor asociado en Rutgers University, en New Brunswick, Nueva Jersey, donde ense\u00f1\u00f3 redacci\u00f3n y gram\u00e1tica de refuerzo a estudiantes de primer curso de nuevo ingreso. Tambi\u00e9n trabaj\u00f3 como consultor para Hudson School en Hoboken, Nueva Jersey, y Westbury Friends School en Westbury, Nueva York, mientras se preparaban para un nuevo liderazgo. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tras sufrir un ictus en enero de 2009, Rich sigui\u00f3 influyendo en la vida de quienes le rodeaban. Fue voluntario en el Westchester Martin Luther King Jr. Institute for Nonviolence y en la Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Library, ambos en White Plains, Nueva York, donde seleccion\u00f3 nuevos libros sobre justicia social, equidad e inclusi\u00f3n para la colecci\u00f3n de la biblioteca.   <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Los Amigos describen a Rich como amable, reflexivo y de risa f\u00e1cil. Se preocupaba por su familia, sus estudiantes, sus colegas y por la justicia en la educaci\u00f3n y en toda la humanidad. Rich cre\u00eda que todo el mundo es docente y puede aprender durante toda la vida, y que la educaci\u00f3n formal, que no est\u00e1 al alcance de todas las personas, no determina el valor de nadie.  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Le sobreviven su esposa desde hace 26 a\u00f1os, Rosaria (Roe) Golden; dos hijastros, Ria y Nora; su anterior c\u00f3nyuge, Lucy; dos hijos, David (Lisa) y Susan (Seward); cinco nietos; una hermana, Muriel; una sobrina y un sobrino; y una sobrina nieta y dos sobrinos nietos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eldridge\u2014Richard Leete Eldridge, 85, el 3 de octubre de 2025. Rich naci\u00f3 el 8 de junio de 1940. 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