Background
Feindler, Joan La Garde was born on October 5, 1929 in New York City. Daughter of Francis Harry and Marie La Garde (Engleke) Scantlebury.
Feindler, Joan La Garde was born on October 5, 1929 in New York City. Daughter of Francis Harry and Marie La Garde (Engleke) Scantlebury.
Bachelor, Mount Holyoke College, 1950; Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1959.
Teacher, L'Ecole Normale d'Institutrices, Rouen, France, 1950-1951;
teacher, Berkeley Institute, Brooklyn, 1954-1956;
teacher, German American School Association, Ridgewood, New York, 1981-1986;
master teacher French, Graduate School Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1966;
supervisor, Graduate School Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1967;
instructor, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1968-1969;
instructor, Columbia University, New York City, 1973-1974;
teacher French and Latin, The Wheatley School, Old Westbury, New York, 1957-1996;
curriculum associate, The Wheatley School, Old Westbury, New York, 1963-1996;
retired, 1996. Demo teacher U. Colorado, Boulder, 1961, Hollins College, Virginia, 1962. Board directors Northeast Conference on Teaching Foreign Langs., 1968-1974.
Campus principal Am.Inst. Foreign Study at Schloss Nordkirchen, Germany, 1969. Teacher FrenchFgn. Study League Summer Program, Strasbourg, France, 1971.
Dean Scholastic International Summer Program, 1973-1975. Supervisor School Exch. Program of Council on International Ednl.
Exch., France and Switzerland, 1978, 81, 83-84. Foreign language consultant various school districts, 1975-1990.
Member American Association Teachers French (president Nassau County chapter 1971-1974), New York State Association Foreign Language Teachers (Distinguished Foreign Language Teacher 1988), Classical Association of the Empire State, Long Island Language Teachers, Foreign Language Association Chairmen and Supervisors (Long Island chapter, Morel award 1991), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Klaus Stefan Feindler, October 20, 1952. Children: Eva, Alexa.