| Activity | Principal, Oak Lane Country Day School; Philadelphia, Federal Union director; writer; educationist. He was Headmaster of Dartington Hall School, 1931-1957, brought in at a time when the School's original principles of freedom and integration with the other enterprises on the estate were proving difficult to implement and the school was in danger of collapse. He was a dynamic Head, much loved by the pupils and he quickly increased the numbers and brought order to the school, although in doing so he cut it off to a large extent from the rest of the estate. For much of his time as Head the School's reputation as one of the most exciting of the progressive co-educational schools, was at its height: he played a major role in the shaping of the School and its standing, at the same time lecturing in America and England and writing books on politics and education, including in 1939, The Case for Federal Union, about the belief in establishing a peaceful, democratic and orderly world. It sold 100,000 copies in six months and Curry is said to have been one of the federalists whose writings directly inspired some of the founders of the European community. Tiredness and ill health brought Curry's resignation in 1956 and he died in 1962. |