Feig, Werner M., 1932-1997

Person

Staff Only

Biography

Werner Feig taught Middle and Upper School history at Nightingale from 1991 to 1997. Additional roles included Head of the History department 1991-1995, advisor to CAFE and Model Congress, and Upper School advisor 1991-1997.

Mr Feig was born in Breslau, Germany in 1932. He moved to Hongkew, a Jewish ghetto in Shanghai, China to escape the Holocaust. He later settled in Pittsburgh, where he attended high school and college. He further earned an MAT at Harvard University in 1959 and an MA in political science in 1965 from the University of Chicago. He taught history at Scarsdale High School prior to Nightingale.

The Werner Feig Holocaust Memorial Lecture was established in [___] in his honor. It is sponsored by the family of Julie Kenner Case '94.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Photograph of Werner Feig with students in classroom, 1998

Item — Box: 01133

Identifier: 001 004 000 19 0729

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Group: Faculty and Staff Records consist of records mainly pertaining to Nightingale employees (excepting administration) and their roles within the school. Included are newsletters by and/or for faculty members, biographical information and news clippings about faculty/staff, photographs and video recordings featuring faculty/staff, correspondence, lists of faculty and staff members, faculty handbooks, minutes from faculty meetings and summaries or notes from such meetings, and curriculum-related...

Dates: 1998

Found in: The Nightingale-Bamford School Archives / RG01, RG01 Academics Record Group / SG004 Faculty and Staff Records / S03 Photographs

Photographs of Werner Feig teaching Upper School students, c. 1990 - 1998

File — Box: 10018

Identifier: B10018_F29

Dates: c. 1990 - 1998