ABSTRACT
Benjamin Franklin was surely America’s first and most famous association founder. In this chapter, the author addresses the following questions: who are Philadelphia’s present Benjamin Franklins? What kind of men are carrying on his dogood traditions? In order to shed some light on these questions, the author interviews five men: William Warden Bodine Jr.; John Whiley Eckman; Frank C. P. McGlinn; Isadore M. Scott; and Robert Montgomery Scott. These five modern Franklins are a varied and interesting group of men. These five modern Franklins are a varied and interesting group of men. Bill Bodine and Bobby Scott are of old Philadelphia roots and Harvard alumni. Frank McGlinn is a Philadelphian of old Quaker roots on his mother’s side and Irish-Catholic on his father’s. For all of these five men, boardsmanship is a kind of calling, in the old Calvinist or Puritan sense.
