The Schneider Family
Willis, Elizabeth and Schneider, Kristin
$25.00
One hundred years, a centenary, is a significant milestone—a time to reflect and remember, a time for a family to take stock as it looks to the future.
Fr Geoffrey Schneider SJ’s centenary on 23 December 2012 was preceded by his acknowledgment in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s oldest active teacher. His nephew, Paul Schneider, commissioned this work as a tribute to a remarkable man.
This wide-ranging family memoir embraces the stories of Fr Schneider, his brother Victor Schneider, and sister-in-law Marie Schneider, their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, along with many ancestors and relations.
Like so many Australian stories, this is one of emigration: the Schneiders from Switzerland, the Heatleys and McIntyres from Scotland. Interwoven with their stories are accounts of wars, land settlement, and, in a small way, the beginnings of the Australian wine industry—an early vineyard in the Melbourne suburb of Surrey Hills.
The heirs to that rich history are the younger generation of Schneiders, who tell their own stories of how they are taking their place in the world.
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