Though elegance may have fallen from fashion, Jean was an elegant person, gracious and dignified yet warm and interested in others. Like other faculty, I admired her unique  presence. She agreed to let me to study Personality Theory with her for a semester. After she retired, she was good enough to lend her name and support to an award that I was given.  As for many others, she provided to me a teaching and scholarly model.  Her legacy lives on in those whom she taught and helped.

I first met Jean in 1957 when I moved with my family of origin to Lebanon and transferred my Bucknell credits to LVC.  I never had any psychology courses there, having fulfilled that requirement at Bucknell, but I knew and respected and admired her from our campus contact.  I have a painting she made for me; it is a "bird watching a birdwatcher!"  I cherish it as I cherish our friendship through the years.  Her memorial service was a fine tribute to who she was.  I shall remember her fondly always.

Donna Jeanne Gay Grun Kaplan

Dr. Love was a wonderful teacher.  Her wisdom and encouragement have stayed with me since I was a student at LVC and have helped me through some rough times.  Thank you, Dr. Love.

I first met Jean in the spring of 1961.  Fresh out of grad school, I interviewed for a job in the LVC Psychology Department.  I was hired and, besides being lucky in getting the job, I was fortunate to find in Jean, my new boss and colleague, an extraordinary mentor, supporter and life-long friend.  My early development as a college teacher was profoundly influenced by her intellectual breadth, high standards of scholarship, and unfailing commitment to fairness and honesty in all her dealings with students and colleagues.  Jean did not cut corners! 

Jean became close to Joyce, my wife, and Rich and Jeff, our sons.  She spent some time with us when were on a Peace Corps assignment in Puerto Rico, and stayed with us while teaching a summer course at IUP.  To this day, all the Magees continue to enjoy dinners featuring her famous California Casserole recipe.  On display in our home are two of her paintings -- one is a colorful portrayal of Native American dancers, and the other is an abstract depiction of a laboratory rat which she presented to me when I was formally awarded my degree from Temple.

Although I was her colleague at LVC for only seven years, we maintained contact through letters, phone calls and occasional visits.  She touched my life in powerful and enduring ways -- ways, which, I think, made me a better professor and, more importantly, a better person.  Thank you, Jean.

When I came to LVC as a young faculty wife interested in psychology in 1959,  Jean hired me as a departmental assistant and became my friend and mentor for many years. She was a great cook, and she delighted in having dinner parties for newcomers to the college community, welcoming us with her generous spirit.  As years went by, she was an important part of my family, becoming godmother and "Aunt Jean" to my children.  Her love enriched our lives and the lives of many others whom she befriended.

Aunt Jean" was my godmother, and I have many happy memories of childhood moments spent with her while I was growing up in Annville. I hadn't seen her in many, many years, nor have I returned to Annville in many years, but my memories are vivid.

I recall her as fun-loving and always delighted to see me. The fact that she was an accomplished writer and scholar known as Dr. Love would have mystified me! To me, she was my adored and adoring godmother, and to a child growing up in a small town, that was plenty.

Her apartment on Main Street was filled with exotic and fascinating art -- I certainly knew of no other such living room in Annville. When I was in elementary school, she told me that, as a baby, I'd pointed to her stone sculpture of a polar bear and declared "Heavy!" She knew right then and there, she said, that I was a very bright child -- and who was I to argue?

When we would sit and talk in her kitchen, I felt so important and grown-up, both in the apartment on Main and later in her home on Sheridan Avenue. ("Sheridan"! It still sounds so fancy, even decades later!)

I always admired her collection of miniature souvenir spoons in their intricate wooden holder, hanging on her kitchen wall. So many spoons, each shaped and designed differently, each recalling a different far-away destination. Hmm, I wondered: would I ever get to see so many neat places?

Sometimes we drank hot tea; other times we had cold Diet Pepsi over ice with lime. This was the life! We also would have biscuits -- I think I get it now; biscuits must have been part of her growing-up years in the South.

One time she gave me a houseplant called a pittosporum. (I hope she would be proud that I have become a garden writer and an avid gardener.) She also gave me a copper pin decorated with a horse. 

And she gave me a sampler that she had stitched that says, "Love is patient; love is kind." It's hanging in a prominent spot right inside my front door. I guess she probably wasn't referring to herself, but she could have been.

My parents picked my middle name, "Jean," in honor of her.

Thank you, Aunt Jean, for all the special and wonderful times while I was growing up. In a way, I will always feel that part of you is still with me.

Jean was a great colleague, mentor and friend. I could always count on her to offer advice when I needed it. She was an enjoyable person to work with. I offer condolences to her family. - David Lasky

Jean was my teacher, mentor, and friend at a time in my life when I needed all three.  I will always be grateful for her kindness and her caring.  I send my sympathy now to her family.

I appreciated Jean's compassionate kindness to a young faculty member. She made me feel welcome! Welcome to you on the other side, Jean. 

Peace and love to you and your family, 
Don

Dr. Love served Lebanon Valley College as a professor of psychology and was, for a time, chair of LVC's Department of Psychology.  

A Memorial Service will be held on Wednesday, January 6 at 10 a.m. in the Levi Zerr Chapel of Cornwall Manor.

Members of the College community extend their condolences to family and friends.

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Jean Olivia Love

27 février 1920 – 26 décembre 2015

Rohland Funeral Home Inc.

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