Saeger Nierenberg, Julie

Armin L. Saeger (1892-1988) was a teacher of mathematics and the German language, whose life began in a small and close-knit community called Friedens, near St. Charles, Missouri. At the age of 21 he became a professor at Columbia College in Missouri, a school for women. As war erupted, he was briefly conscripted to teach WWI fighter pilots the "mathematics of flying," having himself never been in an airplane. Armin then moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he met and married Caroline G. Roeger, after falling in love with her and the sound of her beautiful singing voice. They were blesse...