Education: Model Headmaster

The Rev. Erdman ("Erd") Harris is an unusual Doctor of Theology: brisk, athletic and cheerful as a dynamo, he is an expert pianist (hot and classical), a talented songwriter, a painter of landscapes and murals, an Arabic conversationalist, an authority on Biblical literature. At Princeton (class of 1920) he Wrote the music and part of the book for what many Princetonians consider the best Triangle Club show ever: Isle of Surprise. He once reached the finals of Egypt's national tennis championship. At 45 he can still trim any boy on the Lawrenceville School...

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