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It lives in the scrapbooks and the photographs Mary Ann Cornell
holds close.
It lives in a children’s book, Ted Studebaker: A Man Who Loved
Peace, and a plaque on the wall in the Gladdys Muir Peace Garden
on the Manchester campus.
It lives in that lovingly preserved historic home in Dayton, where,
in the Peace Heroes Room, you can see Ted Studebaker’s guitar
and that 40-millimeter shell and all those photos from Vietnam,
and watch a video interview with his siblings.
“He wrote a letter to his draft board (that said) ‘My path is
different’,” says his brother Gary ’63 on the video. “He set out to
do what the world needed.”
Brothers publish new
book about Ted
Gary W. Studebaker ’63 and Douglas E. Studebaker have
written a book about their brother, Ted Allen Studebaker, An
Enduring Force for Peace. Published in April by Wipf and Stock
Publishers, it is available at http://wipfandstock.com/ted-al-
len-studebaker.html and on Amazon.
The children’s book Ted Studebaker: A Man Who Loved Peace
(Herald Press, 1987), written by Joy Hofacker Moore ’74
and illustrated by Jim Guenthner, is also available on Amazon.
“He very clearly said he wanted to serve people,” his brother
Ron adds. “It was a matter of conscience. And he followed that
conscience.”
By Benjamin Smith
Above left, five of Ted’s eight siblings pose for a photo
in MU’s Peace Garden. Front from left are Nancy
Smith and Doug Studebaker and back from left are
Gary Studebaker ’63, Ron Studebaker ’63 and Mary
Ann Cornell ’52c. Above, Ted tends to chicks that
grew to provide eggs. At far left is Pakdy Studebaker,
who married Ted only a week before he was killed. At
left is the cover of the book Ted’s brothers Gary and
Douglas have written about their brother.
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