Ravi D. Goel Collection of George Hibbert Driver (AC 1900) Materials

George Hibbert Driver (AC 1900) was born on May 6, 1879 in Lynn, MA, the son of George Hibbert Smith and Lucretia Goddard (Larkin). Driver prepared for college at Wakefield High School and graduated Beta Theta Pi from Amherst College in 1900. Driver was the principal of Hopkins Academy in Hadley, MA from 1900-1902. He went on to receive his MA from Amherst College in 1904 and a Bachelor of Divinity from Yale University in 1905. As the recipient of Yale's Hooker Fellowship, Driver continued his theological studies at the American School for Oriental Study and Research in Jerusalem from 1905-1906. Driver continued his studies at the University of Marburg, Germany in 1906 and at Berlin University from 1906-1907. He received a Master of Sacred Theology from Harvard University in 1940.

Driver served as a Congregational minister through New England, New York, and Pennsylvania from 1907-1945. Driver was also involved with the Boston Evening Clinic and Hospital, Boston Industrial Home, National War Work Council, World Fellowship Inc., the Billerica Historical Society, the Temple Choir of Lowell, and the Wollaston Glee Club of Quincy.

Driver self-published two books of poetry: Cape-Scapes, 1930, and Fare of Poems, 1958, as well as numerous articles and poems in religious and secular publications. Driver also published What has become of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, 1936 and Anne Hutchinson: Exponent of the Spirit, 1936. Driver's story "The benison of Bride's Brook" was published in New England Short Stories, 1934.

Driver married Helen Pitman, daughter of Judge Charles Upham Bell in 1914. George Hibbert Driver died in Marblehead, MA on May 10, 1966.