The following chart details events in the life and work of Ralph Borsodi. It was compiled by Bill Sharp.
DATE | EVENT | AGE |
20 Dec 1888 | Borsodi born, Vienna, Austria | |
1891 | RB’s mother died; RB arrived in New York where his father had a business | |
4 Aug 1896 | William Borsodi (father) naturalized. | |
1900 | Borsodi at Gerlach Academy, a prep school. | 12 |
1900, January 5 | Mildred Loomis born, Blair, Nebraska | |
1903 | RB moved into own apartment, working for father, speaker and newsletter editor for the Georgist movement. Voracious reader. | 15 |
1908 | Rice, Texas, land management and newspaper editor | 19 |
18 Aug 1911 | Married Myrtle Mae Simpson | |
1918 or 1919 | Chair New York Single Tax organization | |
1918 | Stops using processed foods. | |
1 Apr 1920 | Moved to Seven Acres homestead, Rockland County, NY | 31 |
1921 | Purchased 16 Acres, Ramapo Hill. Built Dogwoods in 1923 | |
1922 | The New Accounting | |
1923 | National Advertising Versus Prosperity | |
1927 | The Distribution Age | |
Summer 1929 | New Republic printed This Ugly Civilization in three installments. | |
1929 | This Ugly Civilization | 40 |
1930 | NY Census, Tallman, Ramapo Twp., Rockland Co., Nyack Turnpike | |
1933 | Flight From the City | |
1933 | Started Homestead Notes. | |
Spring 1933 | Dayton, Liberty Homestead Project | |
19 July 1934 | RB left Dayton in disgust and returned to Dogwoods | |
September 3,1934 | School of Living founded, Suffern, NY | 46 |
1935 | Independence Institute, First land trust corporation | |
1936 | Bayard Lane School of Living opened. | |
1937-40 | Homestead Bulletin-How to Economize. At least 34 Bulletins were produced | |
Jan 1937 | Borsodi, Stillman and Agar start Free America | |
1938 | Prosperity and Security. A Study in Realistic Economics | |
1939 | Agriculture in Modern Life | |
1939 – 1940 | Mildred’s year at School of Living Suffern | |
1940 | Mildred married John Loomis, settled at Lane’s End homestead, Ohio | |
1940 | Oberlin College problems of living seminar. Seventh 1948. See 8th, 1954 | |
1940 – 1945 | The School’s publication was named The Decentralist. | |
1942 | Borsodi awarded master’s degree for thesis by St. John’s College | |
1945 | School of Living building sold. Headquarters moved to Lane’s End, Ohio | |
Jan 1945 | School of Living Institute Chartered in Chicago (Headquarters Ohio) | |
Jan 1945 | Mildred starts The Interpreter | |
1945/1948 | Inflation is Coming and What to Do About It. Sold a half-million copies | |
1948 | Education and Living, Two Volumes | |
1949 | Established a new School of Living at Melbourne | |
Dec 1949 | Myrtle Mae died | 61 |
1950 | Met and married Clare Kittredge. Built new house at Melbourne | |
1952 | Chartered School of Living of America | |
May 1952 | Cruise to Asia, and around the world | |
1954 | Borsodi and friends began organizing University of Melbourne | |
1954 | Borsodi eighth seminar on problems of living (see 1940) | |
1954 | Mildred incorporated School of Living in Ohio | |
Mar 1955 | Journal of Praxiology appeared | |
1956 | The Challenge of Asia: A Study of Conflicting Ideas and ideals | |
4 Jan 1956 | Melbourne University formally opened | 67 |
1957 | Mildred proposed Green Revolution book | |
Jan 1958 | Balanced Living replaced The Interpreter. Ran until A Way Out in 1962 | |
Spring 1958 | Melbourne University closed | |
1958 | Borsodi to India. Arrived August 1958. Stayed two years | |
1958 | Pan-Humanist Manifesto | |
1958 – 1960 | Worked on manuscript that became The Education of the Whole Man | |
1960 | Borsodi health breakdown, nearly died. Long convalescence in India | 72 |
1961 | Clare bought homestead at Exeter, NH late in year. Borsodi returns to US | |
July 1962 | Begin publishing A Way Out. Ran until 1967 | |
January 1963 | Mildred Launches Green Revolution | |
1963 | The Education of the Whole Man published | 74 |
1965 | Mildred Loomis, Go Ahead and Live | |
1966 | Borsodi 4th; (?) trip to India | |
January 1, 1967 | Heathcote Dedicated | |
1967 | International Independence Institute (III) Land Trust. In Exeter | |
1967 | The Definition of Definition | |
1968 | Borsodi fifth trip to India | |
1968 | Seventeen Problems of Man and Society | 79 |
1968 | John Loomis died; Mildred moved to Heathcote | |
May 1969 | Borsodi award honorary doctorate at University of New Hampshire | |
1972 | Independent Arbitrage International (IAI) Local Currency, The Constant | 83 |
1973 | International Foundation for Independence (IFI), Luxembourg | |
1974 | Mildred Loomis, Ed., Moving into the Front. Ranks of Social Change | |
1975 | Mildred took School of Living to Deep Run Farm near York, PA | |
26 Oct 1977 | Borsodi died, Exeter, New Hampshire | 88 |
1980 | Mildred Loomis, Decentralism: Where It Came From, Where is it Going? | |
1982 | Mildred Loomis, Alternative Americans – A second edition of Decentralism | |
1982 | Mildred dedicated Borsodi Memorial Library | |
1986 | Mildred Loomis, Ed., Borsodi as I Knew Him. 99 copies | |
1986 | Mildred completed Ralph Borsodi: Reshaping Modern Culture. 300 copies | |
18 Sept 1986 | Mildred Loomis died at York, PA. Age 86 | |
1986 | Borsodi library closed, books disbursed, and records lost | |
1989 | Ralph Borsodi, Inflation and The Coming Keynesian Catastrophe | |
December 2018 | Last issue of Green Revolution | |
September 2019 | This Ugly Civilization, 90th anniversary edition, forward by Bill Sharp | |
April 1, 2020 | Ralph Borsodi, A Confident Future Blog, and centenary. | |
January 24, 2021 | Ralph Borsodi, A Confident Future: Learning and Living | |
April 1, 2021 | Ralph Borsodi, A Confident Future: The Green Revolution |