A. Herbert Dobbing

Doing a little Google casual searching for Brummana High School this morning I came across a couple links about 1948-1957 BHS headmaster Herbert Dobbing (1893-1970).

Joyce Spinks, daughter of Dobbing, wrote a brief recollection of her father and her family's experiences in Lebanon in a December 16, 2006 article A Local Quaker in Lebanon, for The Stream (a publication of the village of Ayton in England).

Ayton village is home to an old, but closed, Quaker school, Ayton School where Dobbing was a teacher 1921-1945 before taking the position at BHS. At an Ayton Old Scholars' site, there is a more in depth article on Dobbing's life, titled A Testimony to the Grace of God in the Life of A. Herbert Dobbing.

In addition, I looked in my copy of Quaker Service in the Middle East with a History of Brummana High School 1876-1975 by H. J. Turtle and found this interesting tidbit on page 100, "Incidentally, the Dobbings were the first Principals to go out to the Lebanon by air."

Dobbing also published a book titled, Cause for Concern: a Quaker's View of the Palestine Problem (1970).