Langdon Elsbree
Langdon is a member of Claremont Meeting and a product of Quaker education (George School and Earlham College) with advanced degrees (MA Cornell; PhD Claremont Graduate School in literature). He taught in various colleges and universities for forty-seven years and retired in the year 2000. These institutions where he taught included Miami University in Ohio, the Claremont Colleges (mainly Claremont McKenna), Ain Shams in Egypt on a Fulbright, and Carleton as a visiting faculty member. Langdon has served on a number of committees of Pacific Yearly Meeting (Ministry & Oversight, Site, Publications Policies) as well as committees of the Southern California Quarterly Meeting and most of the standing committees at Claremont. He was a founding member of Friends Association for Higher Education, and was very active in planning and making presentations for many years. He also served on the board of the then-Friends Bulletin when Nancy (Yarnall) McLauchlan was editor. His publications include co-editing six editions of the Heath Handbook of Composition, two books on ritual and story, and a substantial list of reviews and essays. The range of his publications includes subjects from the dance in the novels of Austen, Eliot, Hardy, and Lawrence to critical studies of Frost, Orwell, and other poets along with other modern writers. Various grants (National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminar, NEH summer stipend, research monies from Claremont McKenna College, etc). helped sponsor these books and essays. He is married and has one daughter.