Davidon, Ann Morrissett

Ann Morrissett Davidon: writer, editor, educator, pacifist, peace activist; b. 1925 in Dayton, Ohio; attended Denison University; also educated at the University of Chicago and the New School for Social Research; received Master of Arts degree in education from the Putney Graduate School. William Cooper Davidon: physicist, professor of physics at Haverford College (retired 1994), pacifist, peace activist; b. 1927 in Florida; attended Purdue University; received B.S., M.S., and Ph. D. (1957) from the University of Chicago. AMD and WCD were married in 1963; both were very active in peace, pacifist, anti-Vietnam War, and social justice organizations; both advocated and practiced war-tax resistance; in 1971, WCD was named an "unindicted co-conspirator" in a plot to kidnap Henry Kissenger; they were honored jointly in 1973 with the Philadelphia Sane Peace Award; they divorced in 1978.