Obituary: Dr. Carl J. Manone, 88, of Palmer Township

Dr. Carl J. Manone, 88, of Palmer Township and Destin, Fla., and formerly of Hellertown, passed away on March 14, 2012. Carl was the husband of Darunee Manone, a secretary/interpreter whom he met while working for the U.S. Agency for International Development in Thailand. Carl graduated from Hellertown High School, where he served as class president, yearbook editor, and league-leading scorer for Hellertown’s first Lehigh-Northampton Basketball League Championship in 1941. In 1992 he was inducted into the Saucon Valley Sports Hall of Fame. He was a PIAA basketball official, and also organizer-player-coach for the local semi-professional basketball team, the “Hellertown Steelers,” a member of the Penn-Jersey League. He was elected to the All-Star team five consecutive years. In 1947 he received a BA (with honors) in political science from Lehigh University, and a year later he received an MA from Lehigh. In 1957, he was awarded a doctorate degree by Teachers College, Columbia University. He was elected to four national educational and social science honorary fraternities, and he was named to the National Register of Prominent Americans. In 1963, Dr. Manone was granted a fellowship by the Charles Kettering Foundation for a Summer Institute in the Humanities at Bennington College. In 1964, he participated in the Advanced Administrative Institute at Harvard University. In 1964 and 1965 he taught in the graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania. He was listed in “Who’s Who in American Education,” “Who’s Who in the East,” the “Dictionary of African Biography,” and the “Dictionary of International Biography.” In 1981, he was given the “Outstanding Educator Award” by the Bucks County Supervision and Curriculum Association. He published numerous professional articles and research studies, was editor of the “Association of Teacher Education in Africa Report” from 1967 to 1971, and served as speaker/consultant for dozens of universities and conferences both in the U.S. and internationally. He served as past president of the Hellertown Alumni Association, the Souderton School District Education Association, and Holy Name Society. His 36 years in the field of education included work in curriculum and guidance in Souderton and Kennett Square, Pa., followed by serving as assistant superintendent and superintendent in the Abington Township public schools. In 1993 and 1995 he served as interim superintendent and strategic planning consultant for the . From 1981 to 1986 he was the vice president and a National Association of Securities Dealers-registered representative at William L. Marshall Financial Group, Doylestown. He also served as a board member on the Pearl S. Buck International Foundation. In 1991, he served on a blue ribbon commission to evaluate the Hellertown Police Department. From 1966 to 1971 he was the director for the Teacher Education in East Africa Project (TEEA) which included Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia. He was an adjunct professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia University, which served as the administrator for the TEEA Project, which was the world's largest international technical assistance program in education at that time. He then served for three years as senior education advisor to the U.S. and Royal Thai governments in Bangkok, Thailand. During the six years in which Dr. Manone served as Chief of Party in East Africa, the TEEA program played a major role in training 20,000 East African teachers and more than 100 tutors for the teacher training colleges. Subsequently, these individuals reached out to teach hundreds of thousands of young African primary and secondary students scattered in both the urban and remotest rural areas of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia. Beyond this, the TEEA program played a critical role in introducing curricular innovations and methodologies, Africanizing course syllabi, organizing in-service programs and promoting non-formal community adult education programs. One of Africa's most renowned educators/statesmen had this to say about the TEEA Program:  "Teachers may come and teachers may go, but the years that TEEA was here can be called the golden age of our educational development." During World War II (1943-1945), First Lieutenant Manone flew 35 combat missions without an abort in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater of Operations as a B-29 Lead Bombardier. He compiled one of the top bombing accuracy records in the 20th Air Force in the war against Japan. He received three Distinguished Flying Crosses (with cluster), the Air Medal (with three clusters), the Presidential Unit Citation (with Cluster) and the Asiatic-Pacific Theater Medal (with four battle stars). In 2001, in a collaborative effort with the Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, he was instrumental in designing a tax exemption breakthrough for Americans interested in contributing to international educational and charitable institutions. He was a member of St. Frances de Chantal Catholic Church in Palmer, the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and numerous educational organizations. He was also a member of , Hellertown.

Survivors: Wife, Darunee, and six nieces. He was predeceased by a sister, Sister Adalgisa Manone, MPF, and two brothers, Nello and Dell.

Services: Family and friends may call from 9 to 10am Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at St. Jane Frances de Chantal Catholic Church, 4049 Hartley Ave., Easton. The calling hour will be followed by a Mass of Celebration and Thanksgiving at 10am. Interment will be at Arlington National Cemetery. A chartered bus is being arranged for those planning to attend the interment service, which will be announced by contacting the , 326 Main St., Hellertown, PA at 610-838-0521 or by emailing david@heintzelmanfh.com. Online expressions of sympathy can be recorded at www.heintzelmancares.com.

Contributions: In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Holy Infancy Catholic Church, 312 E. Fourth St., Bethlehem, PA 18015 and St. Jane Frances de Chantal Catholic Churches, 4049 Hartley Ave., Easton, PA 18045.