Laubach, Frank Charles, 1884-1970

LC control no.	n 82144450
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Laubach, Frank Charles, 1884-1970 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Raubak, Pʻŭraengkʻŭ Ssi, 1884-1970 Lōpakh, Frēnkʻ S., 1884-1970
Ending date	19700611
Birth date	18840902
Place of birth	Benton (Pa.)
Field of activity	Literacy
Affiliation	American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Laubach Literacy, Inc.
Profession or occupation	Authors Educators Missionaries
Found in	His Why there are vagrants ... 1916. His Yesu iyagi, 1962- : v. 6, t.p. (Pʻŭraengkʻŭ Ssi Raubak) Changes, c1982: t.p. (Frank C. Laubach) Dukʻ im barekamners ēkʻ, 1949: t.p. (Frēnkʻ S. Lōpakh) Syracuse University Library Finding Aids: Frank C. Laubach Collection, via WWW, September 23, 2013 (Frank C. Laubach (1884-1970) was a Christian Evangelical missionary, author, and educator who specialized in international literacy; he was the founder of the "Each One Teach One" literacy teaching method and of Laubach Literacy, and is credited with teaching more than 100 million people to read; Frank Charles Laubach was born in Benton, Pennsylvania on September 2, 1884; he studied at Bloomsburg State College (1901), Perkiomen Prep School (1905), Princeton University (BA, 1909), and Union Theological Seminary (1913); he earned his MA (1912) and Ph. D. (1915) from Columbia University; in 1915, Dr. Laubach and his wife went to the Philippines as Congregational missionaries with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; he was a minister at Cagayan, and taught at Union Theological Seminary in Manila; in 1930, he began literacy work on the island of Mindanao and developed an alphabet for the Maranaws in their own Maranaw language; from 1930 to 1970, Dr. Laubach traveled to more than one hundred countries developing literacy primers in 312 languages; he and his literacy teams worked with missions, private agencies, governments, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Peace Corps, and UNESCO; in 1935 Dr. Laubach organized the World Literacy Committee, and in 1941 he became one of the founders of the Committee on World Literacy and Christian Literature, known as "Lit-Lit" (later Intermedia) of the National Council of Churches; he worked with this organization until his retirement in 1954; in 1951, to facilitate cooperation with government and secular organizations, Dr. Laubach started World Literacy, Inc. (now World Education); in 1955, he founded Laubach Literacy, Inc., a non-profit literacy organization with headquarters in Syracuse, New York; he died on June 11, 1970)