Laurie Shigley Brown has earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Classical Languages (Greek and Latin), from the Pennsylvania State University; a Master of Arts degree in Classical Languages (Greek and Latin), from the University of British Columbia; and had neared the completion of a Doctoral degree, with a primary emphasis in Greek and a secondary emphasis in Latin, at Bryn Mawr College. Shortly before the defense of her dissertation on primitive mythical patterns in the Iliad of Homer, her doctoral work was brought to a halt by the serious illness and eventual death of her first-born child. While at Bryn Mawr, Laurie was the recipient of a Whiting Dissertation Fellowship. She was also the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship for the purpose of conducting comparative studies of Ancient and Modern Greek Literature. Under the auspices of the Fulbright Foundation, she conducted research in Athens and on the island of Crete. In recent years she has been the principal force in the formation, organization, and development of The Classical Foundation of Lancaster, of which she serves as President, and The Lancaster Center for Classical Studies, where she is a teacher. She is a member, ex officio, of the Board of Directors of The Classical Foundation of Lancaster.
Peter Scouton Brown has earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, with a major in Greek and a minor in philosophy, from Dickinson College; a Master of Arts degree, with a major in Greek and a minor in Latin, from the Pennsylvania State University; and a Doctoral degree, in the Departments of Philosophy and Classics (Greek and Latin), from the Pennsylvania State University. While conducting doctoral research on the foundations of logic as implied in the Aristotelian theory of truth, he was the recipient of a Sparks Dissertation Fellowship. Upon completion of the doctorate, he conducted advanced research as a Research Fellow, later as a Research Assistant, in the Husserl-Archives of the Higher Institute for Philosophy at the Catholic University of Louvain (Leuven), in Leuven, Belgium. In the intervening years he has conducted independent research in the philosophies of science, logic, language, and mind; the philosophies of art, history, and religion; Greek philosophy; German philosophy; Greek, Latin, and Germanic linguistics; Greek and Latin literature; English literature; European literature; hermeneutical theory; and the New Testament. He is presently engaged principally in the development of The Classical Foundation of Lancaster, of which he serves as Executive Director, and The Lancaster Center for Classical Studies, where he is a teacher. He is a member, ex officio, of the Board of Directors of The Classical Foundation of Lancaster.