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Phoebe Celebrates 120 Years of Serving Seniors

In 1903—a group of 15 clergy and laymen, led by Rev. Dr. A. B. Koplin, decided there was a need for the deaconess role in the life of the church to be revitalized in the Lehigh Valley. A board of trustees drew up a charter defining an organization that would train deaconesses and be a place of shelter for the aged, which would include a hospital.