A Chronology 

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