BRYAN STEVESON

MILTON HISTORY

BRYAN STEVENSON, ALUMNUS, EASTERN UNIVERSITY

Eastern University is a co-ed Christian university in St. Davids, Pennsylvania, just a bit

west of Philadelphia on what we call 'The Main Line”. It is affiliated with American

Baptist Churches with undergraduate and graduate programs for interdenominational

Christian students. The University is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher

Education. The university’s parents are Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary, now Palmer Theological Seminary, born in 1925 as a department of the Seminary it became a separate

institution in 1952, moved to St. Davids as Eastern Baptist College, renamed Eastern College in 1972 and in 2001 was granted 'university status'.

The campus just west of Philadelphia in St. Davids was a 114 acre estate of the Walton

Family named Walmarthon. Warner Memorial Library is housed in the Harold Howard

Center, with it's Mazie Hall African American History Room. There is an Edison Room

for artifacts of Thomas Edison.

The university holds other sites in Center City Philadelphia, East Falls, Philadelphia,

Harrisburg, and Ripley, West Virginia.

Eastern has a men's soccer team, a woman's soccer team , basketball teams, volleyball

teams, lacross, men baseball team, woman's field hockey, softball, , tennis and golf

teams and a cross country track team.

Eastern has 3300 students, it's president is Ronald Matthews, colors maroon and white, motto “Faith, Reason and Justice”, the mascot being the Eagle

Bryan Stevenson a Milton, Delaware native is an alumnus and is the founder and director of

The Equal Justice Initiative.

Abstract: March 31, 2019 by Harrison Howeth for Milton Historical Museum, from the source WIKIPEDIA.