Biography
Ellery was born in Philadelphia, but grew up in the Roslyn community of Abington Township. He graduated from Abington High School in 1958, and attended Tufts University where he earned bachelor degrees in physics and geology. In 1967, Ellery received his Ph.D. in physics from Brown University.
In 1980 Ellery officially changed his name from "Ellory" to "Ellery" citing constant confusions with the name "Elroy" and the historical precedence of the spelling "Ellery".
Ellery Schempp currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts. As of fall 2008, he teaches a class on the separation of church and state at Tufts' Experimental College.
Stephen D. Solomon, professor at New York University, has written a book about Ellery and the Supreme Court case that he was involved in entitled Ellery’s Protest: How One Young Man Defied Tradition and Sparked the Battle over School Prayer (University of Michigan Press, 2007 ISBN 978-0-472-10837-4).
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