Bob Laubach, pioneer in adult literacy education, has died
Syracuse.com: 9.12.2015 by Elizabeth Doran
Robert S. Laubach, a pioneer in adult literacy
education and founder of New Readers Press, died Friday at age 96.
"Dr. Bob" as he was known, and his
late father Dr. Frank C. Laubach, are credited with teaching more than 100
million adults to read and write in more than 200 languages.
Bob Laubach helped his father after Laubach
Literacy Inc., was founded in 1955 in Syracuse. That organization became one of
the founding organizations of ProLiteracy
Worldwide in 2002. Bob Laubach then developed literacy primers in local
languages and organized literacy programs in more than 60 countries.
"Dr. Bob devoted his life to adult
literacy and will be remembered for his many contributions over the past 80
years," said Kevin Morgan, president and CEO of ProLiteracy. "His
legacy will live on in the weekly newspaper for adult learners, News for You,
as well as the other adult education content he helped pioneer."
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