Maylon Harold Hepp Papers

Maylon Harold Hepp was born in Minneapolis on August 30, 1913 to Maylon Harold Hepp, Sr. and Helen Fink. The junior Hepp graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Oberlin College in 1934, where he also earned a master’s degree in 1936. In the same year, Hepp married (Barbara) Anne Woodbury, who also earned a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin in 1934 and a master’s in 1935. They had three children, Barbara, Susanna, and David.

Maylon Hepp was awarded a doctorate degree in philosophy from Brown University in 1939, after which he began his career as an Instructor of Philosophy at Brown. He also taught at Haverford College in Pennsylvania and Park College in Missouri before joining the faculty at Denison University. During his tenure at Denison, Hepp developed and taught courses in Chinese philosophy and culture. In 1959, he studied Chinese language at Stanford University, and won a Fulbright Grant in 1962 to attend the Summer Institute in Chinese Civilization at Tunghai University in Taiwan. Hepp authored a logic textbook titled Thinking Things Through (Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1956) and co-edited the book The Range of Philosophy: Introductory Readings (The American Book Company, New York, 1970) with Harold H. Titus. He remained at Denison as a Professor of Philosophy until his retirement in 1972.

Hepp died on December 6, 1986 at Licking Memorial Hospital in Ohio.

Note written by Hayley Antell