Jane Nelson Beatty
05.20.22 | Our Member's Stories
Although Jane Nelson Beatty was born in Cincinnati, she graduated from Lower Merion High School and has been involved with the local community and WPC for most of her life having been a member here for 60 years. When she graduated from Mt. Holyoke, she went to work as a journalist for Time-Life reporting in the Religion and Science Departments. She later went to graduate school at Penn getting a Master’s in Education and took a position as a Title I reading specialist at Haverford High School. Here at WPC, she taught Sunday School and was asked by Rev. John Galloway, Sr. in 1970 to write the 100-year history of the church which you can find in our Library. Her love of teaching and care of those...