DR. JOSEPH A. VANSANT
Doctor Joseph Addison
Robinson Vansant, Jr., died Saturday, March 13, 1980, in the
Martin County Memorial
Hospital, Stuart, Florida. He had a stroke at his home near
Jensen
Beach. His funeral service
was Saturday, March 22, 1980, at Epworth Methodist Church,
Rehoboth Beach, and he is
buried in All Saints Episcopal Cemetery, Indian River.
Doctor Vansant was born
1901 in Philadelphia to Joseph Addison Robinson Vansant, Sr.,
and Agnes McMasters
Vansant. His father was an employee of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
He was educated in
Philadelphia schools, Haverford College, earned a master at Univ.
of
Pennsylvania and a
doctorate at Columbia University.
He came to Rehoboth Beach
Special School District in 1945 as the superintendent. In 1967
he was named the Educator
of the Year by the Sussex County Teachers Association.
Prior to Rehoboth he was
assistant superintendent of Mount Pleasant High School for one year,
also held administrative
post at Tuckerton and Camden, New Jersey. He taught English at the
Friends School in
Philadelphia for 11 years.
Has been president of The
Private School Teachers Association of Philadelphia, president of
Chief Local School
Officers, president of the Rehoboth Sportsman Club and the Rehoboth
Kiwanis.
In 1924 he married Edna M.
Helms in Philadelphia o survives him. He also has a son Donald
in Bridgewater, N. J.,
daughter, Jamet Rapkin of Cleveland. He was predeceased by a son
Gordon.
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