Here is an online photo of John W. Bodine:
From Ronny Bodine:
John Bodine was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1937 and practiced until 1959; he served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy during World War II; President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Academy of Sciences in Philadelphia 1963-1970, when he was forced to retire due to Parkinson's Disease. From 1974 to 1982 he served as president of the American Association of Rhodes Scholars. See "Who's Who 1976-1977" for a complete biography.
From Pennsylvania Marriage Records:
John W. Bodine AND Elizabeth Reimann were married 1946 in Philadelphia.
Two separate indexes of marriages from the state archives list their marriage in 1946.
Obituary, The Philadelphia (PA) Inquirer of 23 Jan 1991.
John W. Bodine, 79, Rhodes scholar and regional visionary, died Sunday at Suburban Hospital in Norristown. "He was probably the most exciting mind that anyone could come in contact with at any age," said Nancy Bauer, a historian and professor at the University of Pennsylvania. "You could watch him sparkle." Mr. Bodine, a former city lawyer, was a reformer from the Joseph S. Clark- Richardson Dilworth era. During the early 1940s, he helped lead a citizens' drive that led to creation of the city Planning Commission. From 1937 until 1959, Mr. Bodine was a lawyer with the firm of Drinker Biddle & Reath. He resigned as a partner in the firm to become president and executive director of Penjerdel, a new research agency at the time that was set up by the Ford Foundation. "He had a strong regional feeling . . . and the willingness to pursue more noble ends then just making money," said Robert B. Mitchell, an emeritus professor of city planning at Penn. The agency, which took its name from abreviations for Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, did pioneering regional studies on air polution, open space and conservation. From 1963 until 1970, Mr. Bodine was president of the Academy of Natural Sciences. He was forced to retire because he had Parkinson's disease. In retirement, Mr. Bodine donated his energy to younger reformers. In 1987, members of Citizens Now, a citizens' league promoting regionalization, called on Mr. Bodine. "He was the founder of the regional idea in one of its reincarnations," said Bauer, a member of Citizens Now. When the group told Mr. Bodine what they were planning to do, he said, ''You will need to know this. "He was blind and ill, and he asked his wife to go to the bookshelf and find a speech he had given in Seattle in 1966," Bauer recalled. The speech was entitled "One hundreth of one percent." It said a small group of citizens could have an impact on public policy, without waiting for government leaders. "I can't tell you the number of 35-year-olds who Xeroxed it (the speech)," Bauer said. Even though he was ill, Bodine could always analyze problems in a dispassionate way. "He never suffered from nostalgia," Bauer said. "He had the wonderful courtesy to take new reformers seriously, including children. "He really took the time to help each one of us learn what we had to know," Bauer said. "He could frame the facts better than anybody I ever saw without making you feel stupid for not having thought of it yourself. "And he could always laugh at himself. He always saw the humor that comes with the troubles that life brought." A resident of Foulkeways At Gwynedd, Mr. Bodine was a 1929 graduate of Germantown Friends School and a 1933 graduate of Wesleyan University. He went to Balliol College in Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, and earned a bachelor's degree in common law. He was a lieutenant in the Navy during World War II. From 1974 until 1982, Mr. Bodine served as president of the American Association of Rhodes Scholars. For at least 15 years, he also served on a panel that chose four Rhodes scholars every year from the Mid-Atlantic states. Jack Justice, now a city lawyer, was one of those Rhodes scholars chosen by Mr. Bodine's panel. Justice later succeeded Mr. Bodine as president of the American Association of Rhodes Scholars. "I have followed in his footsteps, and they are very large footsteps," Justice said. "He was a very thoughtful and caring person, and he gave an awful lot of his time to Rhodes scholarships." He was a former member of the board of trustees at Wesleyan University. He also received an honorary degree and a distinguished alumnus award, and contributed to the construction of an arts center at the university. He is survived by his wife of 48 years, Elizabeth Reimann Bodine; daughters, Susanna Holahan, Amelia Bergmann, Lucy Nattrass and Cornelia McCann; a brother; a sister, and nine grandchildren. Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting, 100 E. Mermaid Lane. Memorial contributions can be made to The Bodine Music Fund, Development Office, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. 06457.
Obituary, The Philadelphia (PA) Inquirer of 12 July 2017.
BODINE, ELIZABETH "Betty" Reimann, 96, died peacefully with many members of her family present, on July 7, 2017 at Foulkeways, in Gwynedd, PA. The mother of Susanna Holahan (the late Thomas) of New Haven, CT; Amelia Bergmann (Jacob) of Lexington, MA; Lucy Nattrass (John) of Manchester, England; and Cornelia McCann (Brook) of Bryn Mawr, PA. Betty graduated as Valedictorian in 1937 from Germantown Friends School in Germantown, PA, received a BA degree from Smith College, and an MA from University of Pennsylvania both in English. She taught English to eighth graders at Germantown Friends, and to young adults at the Ambler campus of Temple University. She was an avid and accomplished pianist especially as part of myriad chamber music ensembles. Betty was an opinionated follower of current events, and a lifelong Democrat. She channeled energy into traveling internationally and through the United States; summer trips to Little River, Maine and to her parents' home in the Poconos. A special pleasure was discussions with her erudite book club at Foulkeways. In addition to her daughters, she leaves to cherish her memory eleven grandchildren and six great grandchildren. She was predeceased by her husband of 48 years, John W. Bodine; her parents, Dr. Stanley P. and Elsie B. Reimann; her sister Pauline and brother-in-law George Nehrbas; and her son-in-law Thomas Holahan. Her Memorial Service will be held on Sun. July 16th at 2:30 P.M. in the Auditorium at Foulkeways. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests a gift to one of these non-profits, with "in memory of Elizabeth Bodine" on the advice line of a check; gifts may also be made online: The American Friends Service Committee (afsc.org) 1501 Cherry St. Phila, PA 19102; Settlement Music School (settlementmusic.org) Amelia Schmertz, PO Box, 63966, Phila, PA 19147; Planned Parenthood of Southeastern PA (ppsp.org) Attn: Development, Planned Parenthood of Southeastern PA, 1144 Locust St. Phila, PA 19107. For additional memories of Betty's life, please click here:
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