IN MEMORIAM: Margot Waltuch (1908-2003)

Montessori Life, Fall 2003

While taking a Froebel course in her hometown in Germany, Waltuch was assigned to read a book about another pedagogue. She chose Montessori, though she had barely heard of her Waltuch was so fascinated that she immediately left for Rome to study with Montessori in the 15th International Training Course (1930). In the 10 years following, she worked as a teacher and assistant and translator to Dr. Montessori. In the early 1940s Waltuch emigrated to the US, where she became head teacher at the Child Education Foundation in NY, the only Montessori school in the city at that time. She earned bachelor and master degrees in early childhood education. From 1973 she was a national consultant, lecturer, and examiner, and AMI board member (from 1982). A passionate champion of the child's cause, she was AMI delegate to the United Nations NGO. Waltuch retired in 1999.

-Source: AMI Communications

2003/2-3, pp. 13-14