Albert Frank Gegenheimer, Ph.D
Albert Frank Gegenheimer, a long time University of Arizona Professor, Faculty Chairman and Editor of the Arizona Quarterly, died November 30th after a long bout of pneumonia at the age of 96. Dr. Gegenheimer was born in Cleveland Ohio in 1910. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Yale in 1932 he went on to earn his masters from Western Reserve University in 1936 and his Ph.D in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania in 1940. While attending Western Reserve University he met Betty Schutt and they married in 1937. They remained happily married for 53 years until her death in 1990. He joined the University of Arizona Faculty in 1941 and taught there for two years before he was transferred to the University of Connecticut. Soon after he was drafted into the army and while there enjoyed his work in information education. Sergeant Gegenheimer was given an honorary dicharge in 1943 and was pleased to return to his beloved University of Arizona campus. The University of Arizona Quarterly published its edition in 1945 and Dr. Gegenheimer was editor of this literary journal from 1951 until his retirement in 1988. While at the Arizona Quarterly he got to know T.S. Elliot, Stephen Spender and Eudora Welty. In 1966 Joyce Carol Oats submitted a short story to the Arizona Quarterly which was to be her first published work. He reviewed hundreds of books, wrote many articles for literary journals and in 1943 Pennsylvania Press published his first book 'William Smith - Educator and Churchman'. He was very interested in the Episcopal church serving as senior warden at St. Michaels and then at St. Andrews. He served on the bishops standing committee, the bishops selection commitee and from 1980-1982 was the bishops vicar in Tucson, Arizona. In 1992 he received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific based in California. He was a quiet, hardworking, brilliant man who loved his family and his church. He was preceded in death by his parents, Albert and Phoebe Gegenheimer. He is survived by his sons, Peter A. (Lan) Gegenheimer, their two daughters, Julia and Karin and his son, Paul H. Gegenheimer and his two daughters, Grace and Claire. The family asks that he be remembered as someone who loved life, loved his family and loved to travel. His particular love of England led him to travel there thirteen times and his quest for other cultures sent him to Europe well over 20 times. In lieu of flowers, the family requests Bert be honored by contributions to St. Andrews Church, P.O. Box 1165, Tucson, AZ 85702. Services will be held Saturday, December 9, 2006 at 11:00 a.m. at St. Andrews at 545 South Fifth Avenue (fifth and 16th Street).
Published in the Arizona Daily Star on Dec. 5, 2006
Albert Frank Gegenheimer, a long time University of Arizona Professor, Faculty Chairman and Editor of the Arizona Quarterly, died November 30th after a long bout of pneumonia at the age of 96. Dr. Gegenheimer was born in Cleveland Ohio in 1910. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Yale in 1932 he went on to earn his masters from Western Reserve University in 1936 and his Ph.D in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania in 1940. While attending Western Reserve University he met Betty Schutt and they married in 1937. They remained happily married for 53 years until her death in 1990. He joined the University of Arizona Faculty in 1941 and taught there for two years before he was transferred to the University of Connecticut. Soon after he was drafted into the army and while there enjoyed his work in information education. Sergeant Gegenheimer was given an honorary dicharge in 1943 and was pleased to return to his beloved University of Arizona campus. The University of Arizona Quarterly published its edition in 1945 and Dr. Gegenheimer was editor of this literary journal from 1951 until his retirement in 1988. While at the Arizona Quarterly he got to know T.S. Elliot, Stephen Spender and Eudora Welty. In 1966 Joyce Carol Oats submitted a short story to the Arizona Quarterly which was to be her first published work. He reviewed hundreds of books, wrote many articles for literary journals and in 1943 Pennsylvania Press published his first book 'William Smith - Educator and Churchman'. He was very interested in the Episcopal church serving as senior warden at St. Michaels and then at St. Andrews. He served on the bishops standing committee, the bishops selection commitee and from 1980-1982 was the bishops vicar in Tucson, Arizona. In 1992 he received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific based in California. He was a quiet, hardworking, brilliant man who loved his family and his church. He was preceded in death by his parents, Albert and Phoebe Gegenheimer. He is survived by his sons, Peter A. (Lan) Gegenheimer, their two daughters, Julia and Karin and his son, Paul H. Gegenheimer and his two daughters, Grace and Claire. The family asks that he be remembered as someone who loved life, loved his family and loved to travel. His particular love of England led him to travel there thirteen times and his quest for other cultures sent him to Europe well over 20 times. In lieu of flowers, the family requests Bert be honored by contributions to St. Andrews Church, P.O. Box 1165, Tucson, AZ 85702. Services will be held Saturday, December 9, 2006 at 11:00 a.m. at St. Andrews at 545 South Fifth Avenue (fifth and 16th Street).
Published in the Arizona Daily Star on Dec. 5, 2006
Albert Frank Gegenheimer, Ph.D
Albert Frank Gegenheimer, a long time University of Arizona Professor, Faculty Chairman and Editor of the Arizona Quarterly, died November 30th after a long bout of pneumonia at the age of 96. Dr. Gegenheimer was born in Cleveland Ohio in 1910. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Yale in 1932 he went on to earn his masters from Western Reserve University in 1936 and his Ph.D in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania in 1940. While attending Western Reserve University he met Betty Schutt and they married in 1937. They remained happily married for 53 years until her death in 1990. He joined the University of Arizona Faculty in 1941 and taught there for two years before he was transferred to the University of Connecticut. Soon after he was drafted into the army and while there enjoyed his work in information education. Sergeant Gegenheimer was given an honorary dicharge in 1943 and was pleased to return to his beloved University of Arizona campus. The University of Arizona Quarterly published its edition in 1945 and Dr. Gegenheimer was editor of this literary journal from 1951 until his retirement in 1988. While at the Arizona Quarterly he got to know T.S. Elliot, Stephen Spender and Eudora Welty. In 1966 Joyce Carol Oats submitted a short story to the Arizona Quarterly which was to be her first published work. He reviewed hundreds of books, wrote many articles for literary journals and in 1943 Pennsylvania Press published his first book 'William Smith - Educator and Churchman'. He was very interested in the Episcopal church serving as senior warden at St. Michaels and then at St. Andrews. He served on the bishops standing committee, the bishops selection commitee and from 1980-1982 was the bishops vicar in Tucson, Arizona. In 1992 he received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific based in California. He was a quiet, hardworking, brilliant man who loved his family and his church. He was preceded in death by his parents, Albert and Phoebe Gegenheimer. He is survived by his sons, Peter A. (Lan) Gegenheimer, their two daughters, Julia and Karin and his son, Paul H. Gegenheimer and his two daughters, Grace and Claire. The family asks that he be remembered as someone who loved life, loved his family and loved to travel. His particular love of England led him to travel there thirteen times and his quest for other cultures sent him to Europe well over 20 times. In lieu of flowers, the family requests Bert be honored by contributions to St. Andrews Church, P.O. Box 1165, Tucson, AZ 85702. Services will be held Saturday, December 9, 2006 at 11:00 a.m. at St. Andrews at 545 South Fifth Avenue (fifth and 16th Street).
Published in the Arizona Daily Star on Dec. 5, 2006
Albert Frank Gegenheimer, a long time University of Arizona Professor, Faculty Chairman and Editor of the Arizona Quarterly, died November 30th after a long bout of pneumonia at the age of 96. Dr. Gegenheimer was born in Cleveland Ohio in 1910. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Yale in 1932 he went on to earn his masters from Western Reserve University in 1936 and his Ph.D in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania in 1940. While attending Western Reserve University he met Betty Schutt and they married in 1937. They remained happily married for 53 years until her death in 1990. He joined the University of Arizona Faculty in 1941 and taught there for two years before he was transferred to the University of Connecticut. Soon after he was drafted into the army and while there enjoyed his work in information education. Sergeant Gegenheimer was given an honorary dicharge in 1943 and was pleased to return to his beloved University of Arizona campus. The University of Arizona Quarterly published its edition in 1945 and Dr. Gegenheimer was editor of this literary journal from 1951 until his retirement in 1988. While at the Arizona Quarterly he got to know T.S. Elliot, Stephen Spender and Eudora Welty. In 1966 Joyce Carol Oats submitted a short story to the Arizona Quarterly which was to be her first published work. He reviewed hundreds of books, wrote many articles for literary journals and in 1943 Pennsylvania Press published his first book 'William Smith - Educator and Churchman'. He was very interested in the Episcopal church serving as senior warden at St. Michaels and then at St. Andrews. He served on the bishops standing committee, the bishops selection commitee and from 1980-1982 was the bishops vicar in Tucson, Arizona. In 1992 he received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific based in California. He was a quiet, hardworking, brilliant man who loved his family and his church. He was preceded in death by his parents, Albert and Phoebe Gegenheimer. He is survived by his sons, Peter A. (Lan) Gegenheimer, their two daughters, Julia and Karin and his son, Paul H. Gegenheimer and his two daughters, Grace and Claire. The family asks that he be remembered as someone who loved life, loved his family and loved to travel. His particular love of England led him to travel there thirteen times and his quest for other cultures sent him to Europe well over 20 times. In lieu of flowers, the family requests Bert be honored by contributions to St. Andrews Church, P.O. Box 1165, Tucson, AZ 85702. Services will be held Saturday, December 9, 2006 at 11:00 a.m. at St. Andrews at 545 South Fifth Avenue (fifth and 16th Street).
Published in the Arizona Daily Star on Dec. 5, 2006
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