Paul Alfred Shelly of Allentown (formerly of Coopersburg and New Jersey)
DOD: January 20, 2005
POD: in Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown
Age: 78
Spouse: Marilyn Alice Richardson Shelly
Married: 54 years
POB: Quakertown
DOB: July 5, 1926
Parents: Howard L. and Mary (Moyer) Shelly
Education: He graduated from Kutztown University with a B.S. in 1950, he recieved his masters degree in school administration from Lehigh University and did his doctoral level work in curriculum and supervision at Teachers College, Columbia University, 1956-60, Rutgers University, 1965-70, and graduate colloquium at Teachers College, 1982-83.
Employment: From 1950- 1985, he was an educator, a principal of Stockton School both in East Orange, he was an adjunct professor of curriculum and supervision at William Paterson College, Montclair State College and Lehigh University, and became one of the youngest elementary school principals in New Jersey at Ocean Grove School, Neptune, N.J. He was also an associate professor of educational administration at Kean College, Union, N.J., a superintendent of schools in Paramus, N.J. and Montclair, N.J., superintendent of schools, a director of curriculum, a director of instruction and Edgemont School principal. After retiring from education, he co-founded a dry cleaning service in Coopersburg that was sold and eventually became Saucon Cleaners
Military: He enlisted in the Air Force in January, 1945, and was honorably discharged on Dec. 26, and was a mechanic for bombers and served in the Phillipines. Following his discharge, he entered the New Jersey National Guard and achieved the rank of 1st Lieutenant and was a former adjutant.
Religious Affiliation: Asbury United Methodist Church, Allentown (where he taught Sunday School)
Described As: "one of New Jerseys most revered 20th century education leaders"
Social Groups: "His national and statewide association leadership included: 1980-81, chairman, Princeton Group, Statewide Coalition of Educational Associations, and president, New Jersey Association of Schools Administration and frequent consultant to Kean College administration; 1982-83, president, Horace Mann League of the United States; 1984-91, chairman, trustee and field representative, Commission on Elementary Schools Middle States Associates of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary Education. In this capacity, he visited schools in Puerto Rico, Morocco, Sweden and the United Kingdom. He held elementary teachers certificate, principals certificate, supervisors certificate and school administrators certificate in New Jersey. He oversaw racial integration of Montclair schools in the turbulent late 1960s and was an early advocate of the Magnet School of incentive approach to integration. He was the founder, first president and oversaw the establishment of the first West Caldwell, N.J., Community Pool."
Predeceased by: brothers, Ralph O. Shelly, Rev. Ward Shelly and R. Forest Shelly, and a sister, Valeria Shelly Boyer (Memorial ID #55745003)
DOD: January 20, 2005
POD: in Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown
Age: 78
Spouse: Marilyn Alice Richardson Shelly
Married: 54 years
POB: Quakertown
DOB: July 5, 1926
Parents: Howard L. and Mary (Moyer) Shelly
Education: He graduated from Kutztown University with a B.S. in 1950, he recieved his masters degree in school administration from Lehigh University and did his doctoral level work in curriculum and supervision at Teachers College, Columbia University, 1956-60, Rutgers University, 1965-70, and graduate colloquium at Teachers College, 1982-83.
Employment: From 1950- 1985, he was an educator, a principal of Stockton School both in East Orange, he was an adjunct professor of curriculum and supervision at William Paterson College, Montclair State College and Lehigh University, and became one of the youngest elementary school principals in New Jersey at Ocean Grove School, Neptune, N.J. He was also an associate professor of educational administration at Kean College, Union, N.J., a superintendent of schools in Paramus, N.J. and Montclair, N.J., superintendent of schools, a director of curriculum, a director of instruction and Edgemont School principal. After retiring from education, he co-founded a dry cleaning service in Coopersburg that was sold and eventually became Saucon Cleaners
Military: He enlisted in the Air Force in January, 1945, and was honorably discharged on Dec. 26, and was a mechanic for bombers and served in the Phillipines. Following his discharge, he entered the New Jersey National Guard and achieved the rank of 1st Lieutenant and was a former adjutant.
Religious Affiliation: Asbury United Methodist Church, Allentown (where he taught Sunday School)
Described As: "one of New Jerseys most revered 20th century education leaders"
Social Groups: "His national and statewide association leadership included: 1980-81, chairman, Princeton Group, Statewide Coalition of Educational Associations, and president, New Jersey Association of Schools Administration and frequent consultant to Kean College administration; 1982-83, president, Horace Mann League of the United States; 1984-91, chairman, trustee and field representative, Commission on Elementary Schools Middle States Associates of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary Education. In this capacity, he visited schools in Puerto Rico, Morocco, Sweden and the United Kingdom. He held elementary teachers certificate, principals certificate, supervisors certificate and school administrators certificate in New Jersey. He oversaw racial integration of Montclair schools in the turbulent late 1960s and was an early advocate of the Magnet School of incentive approach to integration. He was the founder, first president and oversaw the establishment of the first West Caldwell, N.J., Community Pool."
Predeceased by: brothers, Ralph O. Shelly, Rev. Ward Shelly and R. Forest Shelly, and a sister, Valeria Shelly Boyer (Memorial ID #55745003)
Paul Alfred Shelly of Allentown (formerly of Coopersburg and New Jersey)
DOD: January 20, 2005
POD: in Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown
Age: 78
Spouse: Marilyn Alice Richardson Shelly
Married: 54 years
POB: Quakertown
DOB: July 5, 1926
Parents: Howard L. and Mary (Moyer) Shelly
Education: He graduated from Kutztown University with a B.S. in 1950, he recieved his masters degree in school administration from Lehigh University and did his doctoral level work in curriculum and supervision at Teachers College, Columbia University, 1956-60, Rutgers University, 1965-70, and graduate colloquium at Teachers College, 1982-83.
Employment: From 1950- 1985, he was an educator, a principal of Stockton School both in East Orange, he was an adjunct professor of curriculum and supervision at William Paterson College, Montclair State College and Lehigh University, and became one of the youngest elementary school principals in New Jersey at Ocean Grove School, Neptune, N.J. He was also an associate professor of educational administration at Kean College, Union, N.J., a superintendent of schools in Paramus, N.J. and Montclair, N.J., superintendent of schools, a director of curriculum, a director of instruction and Edgemont School principal. After retiring from education, he co-founded a dry cleaning service in Coopersburg that was sold and eventually became Saucon Cleaners
Military: He enlisted in the Air Force in January, 1945, and was honorably discharged on Dec. 26, and was a mechanic for bombers and served in the Phillipines. Following his discharge, he entered the New Jersey National Guard and achieved the rank of 1st Lieutenant and was a former adjutant.
Religious Affiliation: Asbury United Methodist Church, Allentown (where he taught Sunday School)
Described As: "one of New Jerseys most revered 20th century education leaders"
Social Groups: "His national and statewide association leadership included: 1980-81, chairman, Princeton Group, Statewide Coalition of Educational Associations, and president, New Jersey Association of Schools Administration and frequent consultant to Kean College administration; 1982-83, president, Horace Mann League of the United States; 1984-91, chairman, trustee and field representative, Commission on Elementary Schools Middle States Associates of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary Education. In this capacity, he visited schools in Puerto Rico, Morocco, Sweden and the United Kingdom. He held elementary teachers certificate, principals certificate, supervisors certificate and school administrators certificate in New Jersey. He oversaw racial integration of Montclair schools in the turbulent late 1960s and was an early advocate of the Magnet School of incentive approach to integration. He was the founder, first president and oversaw the establishment of the first West Caldwell, N.J., Community Pool."
Predeceased by: brothers, Ralph O. Shelly, Rev. Ward Shelly and R. Forest Shelly, and a sister, Valeria Shelly Boyer (Memorial ID #55745003)
DOD: January 20, 2005
POD: in Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown
Age: 78
Spouse: Marilyn Alice Richardson Shelly
Married: 54 years
POB: Quakertown
DOB: July 5, 1926
Parents: Howard L. and Mary (Moyer) Shelly
Education: He graduated from Kutztown University with a B.S. in 1950, he recieved his masters degree in school administration from Lehigh University and did his doctoral level work in curriculum and supervision at Teachers College, Columbia University, 1956-60, Rutgers University, 1965-70, and graduate colloquium at Teachers College, 1982-83.
Employment: From 1950- 1985, he was an educator, a principal of Stockton School both in East Orange, he was an adjunct professor of curriculum and supervision at William Paterson College, Montclair State College and Lehigh University, and became one of the youngest elementary school principals in New Jersey at Ocean Grove School, Neptune, N.J. He was also an associate professor of educational administration at Kean College, Union, N.J., a superintendent of schools in Paramus, N.J. and Montclair, N.J., superintendent of schools, a director of curriculum, a director of instruction and Edgemont School principal. After retiring from education, he co-founded a dry cleaning service in Coopersburg that was sold and eventually became Saucon Cleaners
Military: He enlisted in the Air Force in January, 1945, and was honorably discharged on Dec. 26, and was a mechanic for bombers and served in the Phillipines. Following his discharge, he entered the New Jersey National Guard and achieved the rank of 1st Lieutenant and was a former adjutant.
Religious Affiliation: Asbury United Methodist Church, Allentown (where he taught Sunday School)
Described As: "one of New Jerseys most revered 20th century education leaders"
Social Groups: "His national and statewide association leadership included: 1980-81, chairman, Princeton Group, Statewide Coalition of Educational Associations, and president, New Jersey Association of Schools Administration and frequent consultant to Kean College administration; 1982-83, president, Horace Mann League of the United States; 1984-91, chairman, trustee and field representative, Commission on Elementary Schools Middle States Associates of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary Education. In this capacity, he visited schools in Puerto Rico, Morocco, Sweden and the United Kingdom. He held elementary teachers certificate, principals certificate, supervisors certificate and school administrators certificate in New Jersey. He oversaw racial integration of Montclair schools in the turbulent late 1960s and was an early advocate of the Magnet School of incentive approach to integration. He was the founder, first president and oversaw the establishment of the first West Caldwell, N.J., Community Pool."
Predeceased by: brothers, Ralph O. Shelly, Rev. Ward Shelly and R. Forest Shelly, and a sister, Valeria Shelly Boyer (Memorial ID #55745003)
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