The Treasures in One Another

A Memoir

by Margery Swett Walker with Doug Walker

Margery Swett Walker, 1926 – 2019, was a parent, educator, Quaker, community leader, and pragmatist.

Full of talent, energy, and optimism, a girl gives a high school commencement speech in 1944 about living a life of purpose, and she goes on to do just that. Steering a new course away from her happy but traditional childhood in the prosperous suburbs of Chicago, she heads west for college, marries an academic, and is drawn to Quakerism.

She becomes a loving and enthusiastic parent of five children, and she throws herself in community service at home and abroad. In her mid-forties, she returns to university for a Ph.D. and starts a two-decade career as a leader in innovative adult education. Even in retirement, she is a paragon of vigorous, joyful living.

For all her worldly accomplishments, she reflects that her defining characteristic was her unending quest to connect with those around her, finding “the treasures of the Spirit in one another.”

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