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1Denise Hyde Wood, 92, died April 6 at her home in the Kendal
Community of Kennett Square.  She
was known for her international work for reconciliation and for her creative
work of community building.

Denise was born in Boston. Her father was a Bostonian and
her mother a Parisian. She grew up in the neighborhood of Boston and spent many
summers in France visiting her French grandparents.  She attended the American School in Paris for two years and
graduated from The Winsor School in Brookline, Mass.  She graduated from Vassar College where she was president of
her freshman and senior classes.

After World War II Denise returned to Europe, taking a leading
part in the worldwide enterprise of Moral Re-Armament, building trust and new
relationships between the former warring nations.  During the next twenty years the outreach of MRA took her to
port workers in Calcutta, to Hyde Park, N.Y., for lunch with Eleanor Roosevelt,
to the Congo (Zaire)in its first year of independence, escorting the First Lady
of the Congo to visit Pope John XXIII in Rome.

In 1965 Denise became Dean of Women at the newly founded
Mackinac College, a liberal arts college on Mackinac Island, Mich., focused on
developing leadership.

In 1967 Denise and John Wood, a colleague in the work of
MRA, were married in New York City. 
Denise joined New York’s School Volunteer program and was named chair of
its board of directors.  At an
all-boys high school in the Hell’s Kitchen area of Manhattan’s West Side she
taught students on a one-to-one basis how to read.  In 1972 Denise and John moved to Pasadena, Calif.  She became Dean of Students at
Marlborough School, a college-preparatory school in Los Angeles. On retirement
from the school Denise founded the Office for Creative Connections based at All
Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena. 
It was a gift to the city, designed to bring together a multi-ethnic
community and address its needs and opportunities.

In 1990 the Woods moved to Kennett Square where Denise
mobilized a Church of the Advent team to survey the wide community for its
needs. This led to the founding of After-the-Bell.

Denise is the author of two books: “Experiencing Pasadena”
and “Growing up in Pasadena: What Are Our Children Telling Us?” and she
translated from French to English a book: “The Piercing Pain of Freedom”
written by a formerly imprisoned Soviet dissident and published by the Hoover
Institute in Palo Alto, Calif.. 
Denise also played a distinctive role in a documentary film, “For The
Love of Tomorrow”, portraying the life of a French woman socialist member of
parliament who had led a resistance movement in Marseille against the German occupation
in World War II.  Denise had become
her friend and colleague after the war as this woman moved beyond her hatred of
Germany and worked for reconciliation between former enemies on several
continents.

Denise is survived by her husband, John Wood; by a nephew,
Nathaniel Hyde; and a niece, Cynthia Hyde Kinnealey , both of Maine; by a
nephew, Dwight Hyde, of New Hampshire  and Nova Scotia; 
and by three great-nieces, Brittany, Jamie and Jessie.

A Service of Thanksgiving will be held on Saturday, April
24, at ll a.m. at the Episcopal Church of the Advent, 401 North Union Street,
Kennett Square.  The service will
be preceded by a graveside burial service at 9 a.m. at Union Hill Cemetery, 424
North Union Street, Kennett Square, adjacent to the Church.  At 10 a.m. the family will be receiving
guests at the church.  A luncheon
reception in the parish hall will follow the Service of Thanksgiving.

In lieu of flowers the family suggests contributions be made
to the Kennett After School Association, 
P. O. Box 1068, Kennett Square, PA 19348-1068, for its After-the-Bell
program.

Arrangements are being handled by the Foulk & Grieco
Funeral Home Inc. (610-869-2685) of West Grove. To send an online message of
sympathy, please visit www.griecocares.com.

 

Denise Hyde Wood, 92, died April 6 at her home in the Kendal
Community of Kennett Square.

 

Denise Hyde Wood, 92, died April 6 at her home in the Kendal
Community of Kennett Square.  She
was known for her international work for reconciliation and for her creative
work of community building.

Denise was born in Boston. Her father was a Bostonian and
her mother a Parisian. She grew up in the neighborhood of Boston and spent many
summers in France visiting her French grandparents.  She attended the American School in Paris for two years and
graduated from The Winsor School in Brookline, Mass.  She graduated from Vassar College where she was president of
her freshman and senior classes.

After World War II Denise returned to Europe, taking a leading
part in the worldwide enterprise of Moral Re-Armament, building trust and new
relationships between the former warring nations.  During the next twenty years the outreach of MRA took her to
port workers in Calcutta, to Hyde Park, N.Y., for lunch with Eleanor Roosevelt,
to the Congo (Zaire)in its first year of independence, escorting the First Lady
of the Congo to visit Pope John XXIII in Rome.

In 1965 Denise became Dean of Women at the newly founded
Mackinac College, a liberal arts college on Mackinac Island, Mich., focused on
developing leadership.

In 1967 Denise and John Wood, a colleague in the work of
MRA, were married in New York City. 
Denise joined New York’s School Volunteer program and was named chair of
its board of directors.  At an
all-boys high school in the Hell’s Kitchen area of Manhattan’s West Side she
taught students on a one-to-one basis how to read.  In 1972 Denise and John moved to Pasadena, Calif.  She became Dean of Students at
Marlborough School, a college-preparatory school in Los Angeles. On retirement
from the school Denise founded the Office for Creative Connections based at All
Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena. 
It was a gift to the city, designed to bring together a multi-ethnic
community and address its needs and opportunities.

In 1990 the Woods moved to Kennett Square where Denise
mobilized a Church of the Advent team to survey the wide community for its
needs. This led to the founding of After-the-Bell.

Denise is the author of two books: “Experiencing Pasadena”
and “Growing up in Pasadena: What Are Our Children Telling Us?” and she
translated from French to English a book: “The Piercing Pain of Freedom”
written by a formerly imprisoned Soviet dissident and published by the Hoover
Institute in Palo Alto, Calif.. 
Denise also played a distinctive role in a documentary film, “For The
Love of Tomorrow”, portraying the life of a French woman socialist member of
parliament who had led a resistance movement in Marseille against the German occupation
in World War II.  Denise had become
her friend and colleague after the war as this woman moved beyond her hatred of
Germany and worked for reconciliation between former enemies on several
continents.

Denise is survived by her husband, John Wood; by a nephew,
Nathaniel Hyde; and a niece, Cynthia Hyde Kinnealey , both of Maine; by a
nephew, Dwight Hyde, of New Hampshire  and Nova Scotia; 
and by three great-nieces, Brittany, Jamie and Jessie.

A Service of Thanksgiving will be held on Saturday, April
24, at ll a.m. at the Episcopal Church of the Advent, 401 North Union Street,
Kennett Square.  The service will
be preceded by a graveside burial service at 9 a.m. at Union Hill Cemetery, 424
North Union Street, Kennett Square, adjacent to the Church.  At 10 a.m. the family will be receiving
guests at the church.  A luncheon
reception in the parish hall will follow the Service of Thanksgiving.

In lieu of flowers the family suggests contributions be made
to the Kennett After School Association, 
P. O. Box 1068, Kennett Square, PA 19348-1068, for its After-the-Bell
program.

Arrangements are being handled by the Foulk & Grieco
Funeral Home Inc. (610-869-2685) of West Grove. To send an online message of
sympathy, please visit www.griecocares.com.