Pfeifer and Manternach, Ontario visit remembered
Written by John Borst on August 14, 2007 – 3:08 am
posted by John Borst
In Monday August 13th the “In the News” has a link to an L.A. Times article “Influential Jesuit textbook author dies” which announced the death of Carl Pfeifer this way:
Carl Pfeifer, who resigned from the Roman Catholic priesthood to marry his coauthor, with whom he wrote a series of influential textbooks on Catholic education, died of Alzheimer’s disease July 12 at Stonehill Care Center in Dubuque, Iowa. He was 78.
In 1968, Pfeifer was a Jesuit priest working at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., when he and a Franciscan nun published the first in a series of textbooks for elementary students on Catholic education and catechism. The series, called “Life, Love, Joy,” represented a dramatic change in the way Catholic schoolchildren learned about their faith.
As a result, Tomorrow’s Trust correspondent John Quinn sent me these photographs of a retreat/conference Carl Pfeifer and his then, new bride, Janaan Mantermach, lead The Catholic Religious Education Consultants of Ontario (CRECO) and The Hamilton Wentworth religious education consultants at Mount Mary Immaculate retreat centre in Ancaster, Ontario around 1977 – 1979.
John in his e-mail wrote:
The four people at the table with Carl and Janaan were:
Two religious education consultants from Waterloo
One religious education consultant from Simcoe County (Barrie)
One staff member of OCSTA responsible for religious education.
Perhaps readers might like to send me the names of the folks in the picture with Carl and Janaan. I do know, in the background, the person on the left with his back to the camera is John Quinn.
