- ST.
NORBERT ABBEY
- DE
PERE, WISCONSIN, U.S.A.
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- OUR
LADY OF THE ASSUMPTION ABBEY
- DAYLESFORD,
PENNSYLVANIA, U.S.A.
- Rev.
C. Albert Koob, O. Praem.
- b. Wednesday,
Sept. 22,
1920 – d. Sunday, Dec. 26, 1993
Our brother C. Albert Koob was born in
Philadelphia
in 1920, was
vested in 1939, professed in 1941 and ordained in 1945.
Having
graduated earlier from Southeast Catholic and
St.
Norbert
College,
his first assignment was to Southeast Catholic in 1942.
While teaching at Southeast, Al spent his summers at
Catholic
University
and earned a Master’s degree in Speech and Drama in 1948.
That same year he was appointed vice principal, and the following year
was also registrar. Al became
principal of Southeast in 1954, and the next year moved to the new Bishop
Neumann.
In 1961, Al was appointed the Director of the secondary school department of the
National Catholic Educational Association in Washington, D.C., and in 1967, became
its President. From
his role in that position he attended the World Conference on Education in
Berlin, Germany in 1968, the Inter-American Education Conference in Mexico in
1969, and helped organize the National Catholic Education Conference in
Australia in 1970. In 1971, he gave
a lecture series in Zaire
(Democratic Republic of Congo).
Al earned a Ph. D., cum laude,
from Catholic University in 1978, and was director of Credentialing of
Experimental Learning at
Cabrini
College
in 1979.
From 1980 to 1985,
he was director and president of the Adult Education Council of
Philadelphia.
Having
never having completely recovered from a near fatal fall through a defective
sidewalk grate in Washington D.C.
in 1972, Al
retired to Daylesford in 1985.
He died
there on
Sunday, December 26, 1993 at the age of 73.
His body rests at Daylesford.
