
Board Member Spotlight: Craig Whitney
By LMHS Staff
Craig Whitney grew up in Bryn Mawr, and in 1982, joined his father as a sales agent. After his father’s illness in 1996, Craig became proprietor and broker of records of Wilbur M. Whitney Realtor in Bryn Mawr. He is a member of the following organizations: presently serving as a deacon at Zion Baptist Church of Ardmore, treasurer of board of PALM (Positive Aging in Lower Merion) Center in Ardmore; treasurer of Cobbs Creek Community Environmental Education Center in West Philadelphia (CCCEEC); treasurer of Club Thrif-T, the oldest Black Male social club on the Main Line; housing chairperson of Main Line NAACP; member Bryn Mawr Business Association, and former member of Ardmore Rotary Club and Ardmore Affordable Housing.
What is your favorite Lower Merion/Narberth memory?
Having the father and son softball games on July 4th morning at Bryn Mawr Elementary School as a child.
How long have you lived in Lower Merion/Narberth? In which community?
Lived in Bryn Mawr all my life except for going away to college and early years after college.
Why do you want to serve on the board of the Society?
As my father who was born (1910) and grew up in Bryn Mawr, also attended Lower Merion High School, and stories he told me about growing up in Bryn Mawr before World War II and after that, there is a rich history of Afro Americans living in Lower Merion. That history needs to be preserved.
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