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 Robert C. Scheller For a time, Mr. Scheller was the owner of Pre-Test Review, a test preparation company. The firm had evolved from a preparatory course for college admission that he created with a classmate from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated in 1972. A native of Schooley’s Mountain, N.J., Mr. Scheller attended school in Long Valley, N.J., and graduated from the Peddie School where he was a member of the varsity track team, the Cum Laude Society and received the Lawton Award. He is survived by sons Charles and George; daughters Samantha and Paige; his father, George, and brothers William and Brad. A private burial service was held March 28 at Mr. Scheller’s childhood home in Schooley’s Mountain.
Storm M. Schenk Ms. Schenk had worked for more than 20 years for Acme Markets in the Philadelphia area. Raised in Mt. Airy, she attended the C.W. Henry Elementary School and graduated from Wyncote Academy. She is survived by brothers William Robert II, Bruce Walter, Karl Richard and Erik Anton. A memorial service was held April 4 at Summit Presbyterian Church in Mt. Airy. Memorial donations may be made to the Capital Campaign Fund at Summit Presbyterian Church, 6757 Green St., Philadelphia, PA 19119.
Dr. John A. Bailey
Dr. John A. Bailey, 90, formerly of Mt. Airy and Chestnut Hill, an internationally known transportation consultant, died April 1 of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and heart failure at the home of his son in Mendham, N.J., where he had been living for the past year. Dr. Bailey had operated his own consulting firm, Transportation Systems Associates, from 1983 until his retirement in 1992, assisting clients both in the United States and abroad with public transportation issues. He had a long career in Philadelphia city government, first serving as Chief of Refuse Disposal and then as Streets Commissioner. Subsequently he became executive director of the Urban Traffic and Transportation Board and later deputy managing director for Transportation and Public Works. As executive director of the city’s Passenger Service Improvement Corporation in the early 1960s, he was instrumental in the management of the region’s commuter rail system and the formation of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, where he served as deputy managing director from 1964 to 1967. Dr. Bailey’s career shifted to academia in 1967, when he accepted the position of director of the Transportation Center at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. He returned to Philadelphia in 1976 as a partner in the firm of Louis T. Klauder and Associates. When he retired to Santa Fe, N.M., in 1992, Dr. Bailey received a letter from then-Mayor Edward G. Rendell, expressing gratitude for his service to the city, which, the Mayor added, would “suffer the loss of an invaluable and singular resource that it has been able to call upon again and again, decade after decade, you.” He was a board member of the American Public Works Association and was vice chairman of the APWA’s Education Foundation board of governors. He was a former president of the board of governors of the Metropolitan Housing and Planning Council of Chicago and served on the board of visitors of the Army’s Transportation School. Born in Bryan, Texas, he received his bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M University. He later received a master’s and doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania. He served as a captain in the Army during World War II and had worked for a time at the Frankford Arsenal in Philadelphia. He is survived by a son, John E. Bailey, of Mendham, N.J.; a daughter, Louise B. Duback, of La Jolla, Calif.; a sister, Virginia Haldeman, of Pompano Beach, Fla., and three grandchildren. Dr. Bailey’s wife of 62 years, the former Barbara Jane Elliott, died in 2008. A private memorial service will be held at the home of his son. Memorial donations may be made to the Curtis Institute of Music in the name of Barbara E. Bailey at 1726 Locust St., Philadelphia, PA 19103.
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