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Name:	David W. Young
Title:	Executive Director
Company:	Cliveden of the National Trust
Location:	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Web Site:	www.cliveden.org
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"Perhaps the lesson of Icarus is not about flying too high toward the sun, but to be more careful how you build your wings." Stanley Kubrick

David Young became Executive Director of Cliveden in the Germantown section of Philadelphia in February 2006. He has served as Executive Director at the Johnson House Historic Site, also in Germantown, a National Historic Landmark museum of the Underground Railroad, where he was responsible for securing a highly competitive Save America’s Treasures grant and a History Channel grant for an archaeology project involving 11th grade students from North Philadelphia. Prior to Johnson House, David was Executive Director of the Salem County Historical Society in New Jersey, South Jersey’s oldest collecting institution, and Education Director at Philadelphia’s Atwater Kent Museum. He has published on Germantown history and the history of abolition and the Underground Railroad in the Philadelphia region. And he has served on the adjunct history faculty of several area universities. A native of Chicago, David has a bachelor’s degree in German from Northwestern University, an M.A. and doctoral work in History from Ohio State University, and was a Fulbright Scholar in 1992-1993. He has lived in the Blue Bell Hill section of Germantown with his wife and son since 1994. He enjoys bicycling, cooking, and hiking in the Wissahickon woods near his home.